2006

Date: April 2006 Client: Dunedin City Council Authors: Mathew Arcus; Mark Goodchild; Kel »»

Date: October 2006 Client: The Wellington Company Limited Authors: Kel Sanderson ; Mathew Arcus BERL was commissioned to complete a report that compared the costs of running a business in Wellington as compared to Auckland and Sydney.   Its compared costs such as office rents, staff salaries, building operating costs, average travel distance of employees to work, and the environmental costs of the travel pattern to work of »»

Date: October 2006 Client: Society of Local Government Managers (SOLGM) Authors: Mathew Arcus; Dr Ganesh Nana This report is an update of our first report prepared in 2005.  BERL has constructed forecasts for price level change adjustors for local authorities (LAs) to use in their budget processes consistent with their Long-term Council Community Plans (LTCCP).  The approach has been agreed after discussion with, and presentations »»

Client: Central Otago District Council Date: December 2006 Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Dr Ganesh Nana A regional profile and performance report looking at Central Otago District's key performance indicators (GDP, productivity, employment, and business size/creation) over the period 1996-2006 and compared to the New Zealand average. The report also provides an industry analysis looking at the fastest growing and largest industries as »»

Client: Business Porirua Date: November 2006 Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai This report provides a baseline economic impact assessment of sinking a dive-wreck off Mana Island in Porirua.  It also looks at two scenarios based on marketing efforts to attract divers from outside the region.  The report is to be used to inform policy decisions on whether to support this project.  BERL »»

Client: Dunedin City Council Date: January 2006 Author(s): Mark Goodchild; Mathew Arcus  This profile describes the economic performance of Dunedin City in 2005 and over the past decade. This profile has been updated by BERL since 1995, and this year's report contains some additional information on 'sector activity' supported by the Council's Economic Development Unit. Overall, Dunedin's strong growth performance since 1999 has »»

Client: Enterprise Coast Date: April 2006 Author(s): Mat Arcus and Dr Nicola Chandler A regional profile and performance report looking at the key performance indicators (GDP, productivity, employment, and business size/creation) for the Nature Coast region (comprising Kapiti and Horowhenua districts).  Industry detail is also provided along with data and analysis covering the 1994 to 2005 »»

Client: Horticulture Industry Training Organisation Date: June 2006 Author(s): Dr Ganesh Nana; Dr Nicola Chandler This report was an update and extension of our previous work investigating the employment and training needs of the New Zealand horticulture industry. Interviews with industry participants and training providers yielded new information on the wide range of courses available. As before, the report found one of the critical unknowns »»

Client: Tertiary Accord New Zealand (TANZ) Date: March 2006 Author(s): Dr Ganesh Nana, Mark Goodchild, Kel Sanderson This report provides projections of employment growth in New Zealand industry by occupation type for the 2005 to 2011 period. These projections are consistent with the medium-term outlook for economic, export, import, consumption and investment growth generated from BERL’s computable general equilibrium model. The paper »»

Client: Working Directions Group, Department of Labour Date: May 2006 Author(s): Dr Nicola Chandler, Dr Ganesh Nana, Kel Sanderson and Jason Leung-Wai This report sets out the development and a selection of indicative applications for a labour forecasting framework for the food and beverage sector.  It provides a tool which may be manipulated by the client to present various scenarios and inform the user of labour requirements »»

Client: Ngai Tahu Property Ltd Date: September 2006 Author(s): Dr Ganesh Nana BERL was commissioned by the client to produce annual forecasts to 2015 of movements in the CPI and the principal components of the forestry and logging industry producer price index (PPI). A range of economic drivers (including world and NZ GDP) were investigated as explanatory variables for the price movements over the 1994-2005 period. Consequently, equations »»

Client: Career Services Date: July 2005 to June 2006 Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai, Mat Arcus, Dr Ganesh Nana, Dr Nicola Chandler This represents the fifth year of expertise, assistance and advice provided by BERL to Career Services. The services provided centred on labour market analysis, with numerous industry and occupation reports prepared as backgrounders and raw material to inform the Kiwi Careers web-site writers. In addition, 16 »»

Client: Business New Zealand Date: March 2006 Authors: Dr Nicola Chandler; Dr Ganesh Nana This discussion paper looks at the option of introducing a payroll tax which would be revenue neutral to the government as it would be offset by a cut in company tax. New Zealand does not have payroll tax at the time of writing, so this would be a new tax. Section 2 of this paper summarises the political background to the government’s recent »»

Client: Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC) Date: June 2006 Author(s): Adrian Slack, Dr Nicola Chandler, Dr Ganesh Nana, Brian Jameson This project reviewed the literature on specialist Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) interventions in criminal justice settings. The review was designed to provide an evidence base for policy recommendations on early AOD interventions in the justice system. The report describes the scope of the »»

Client: Industry Capability Network Date: June 2006 Author(s): Dr Ganesh Nana This report presents the results of simulations using a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) to illustrate the economy-wide impact of greater market share for domestically-made products vis-à-vis their imported equivalents. The simulations find the largest impact occurs when there is an increase in domestic market share for the Machinery and Equipment »»

Client: Waitakere City Council and North Shore City Council Date: December 2006 Authors: Dr Ganesh Nana and Jason Leung-Wai This project combined existing land use by industry coefficients with the BERL multi-industry CGE model to develop projections of business land requirements for Auckand Region's Northern and Western Sector (NaWS).  This sector comprises the Waitakere and North Shore Cities together with Rodney »»

Client: New Zealand International Arts Festival Date: July 2006 Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Kel Sanderson This report presents the economic impact of the New Zealand International Arts Festival on the Wellington City, Wellington Region and the New Zealand Economy. The economic benefits arise from the expenditure on the Festival, the expenditure from the performers, the expenditure of the visitors, and the expenditure of »»

Client: New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services Date: September 2006 Author(s): Dr Ganesh Nana, Kel Sanderson, Mathew Arcus This study was a preliminary assessment of the provision of funding for accommodation and care of aged people. BERL worked with NZCCSS to define a small number of case studies to describe people in a range of combinations of accommodation and care. The study aimed to scope more comprehensive research into the »»

Client: Wanganui District Council Date: January 2006 Author(s): Dr Nicola Chandler; Dr Ganesh Nana Wanganui District was the 3rd best performing LA on the BERL Regional Database relative rankings in 2005. This is undoubtedly a strong performance and is even more impressive when compared to its ranking in 2004 of just 56th. The key sectors driving the Wanganui District economy (in terms of GDP) in 2005 were manufacturing and building; »»

Client:  Te Puni KokiriDate: August 2006Author(s): Kel Sanderson; Jason Leung-WaiThis report provides economic based arguments for providing Business Facilitation Services assistance in the non-metro areas of New Zealand.  The economic argument is based on three key theories, which are: core drivers, settlement hierarchy; and economies of scale.We use case studies of core driver businesses in Northland to support the theoretical »»

Client: Philanthropy New Zealand Date: May 2006 Author(s): Adrian Slack, Jason Leung-Wai, Kel Sanderson, Dr Ganesh Nana This project provided background information on how to measure the economic contribution of philanthropy in New Zealand and designed a method for carrying out a measurement study. BERL worked closely with the Executive Director and Board of Philanthropy New Zealand (PNZ) to develop a definition of philanthropy that »»

Client: Hutt City Council Date: January 2006 Author(s): Mat Arcus A summary profile and performance report looking at the key performance indicators (population, GDP, employment, business size/creation, and productivity) for the Hutt City over the period 1995-2005. Analysis is broken down across seven sectors, although more detailed 52 sector data is also tabulated. Included in the analysis is a comparison with 11 other LAs accross New »»

Client: Hutt City Council Date: December 2006 Author(s): Mathew Arcus A regional profile and performance report looking at Hutt City's key performance indicators (GDP, productivity, employment, and business size/creation) over the period 1996-2006 and compared to the New Zealand »»

Client: Venture Taranaki Date: July 2006 Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Kel Sanderson  This report presents the economic impact of the redevelopment of the Port Taranaki Marina on the Taranaki economy.  Impacts are identified from the development and ongoing operations of the marina.  The report also identifies positive impacts on the boat building, fishing and tourism industries as well as synergies »»

Client: Martin Jenkins Associates Date: October 2006 Author(s): Ganesh Nana, Jason Leung-Wai The project, on sub-contract, was  to provide a model and forecasts for the Department of Building and Housing. This report summarises the development and construction of a model designed to forecast key components of tenancy volume indicators. In particular, four indicators were modelled and forecast: the number of bond lodgements, the number »»

Client: Tertiary Accord New Zealand Date: October 2006 Author(s): Kel Sanderson, Adolf Stroombergen (Infometrics), Jason Leung-Wai, Ganesh Nana This paper project was primarily directed at exploring the economic and employment role of tertiary education in the context of an increasingly skills-constrained economy. From this exploration we assess implications for a framework for funding tertiary education. While our investigations were broad, »»

Client:  Waitakere City Council Date:  March 2006 Author(s):  Jason Leung-Wai; Mathew Arcus A regional profile and performance report looking at Waitakere City's key performance indicators (population, GDP, employment, business size/creation, housing market and tourism) over the period 1995-2005 and compared to the Auckland region and New Zealand average.  Analysis is broken down across seven »»

Client: Waimakariri District Council Date: February2006 Author(s): Mat Arcus BERL completed projections of average household incomes for selected household groups between 2001 and »»

Client: West Coast Regional Council Date: February 2006 Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Mat Arcus This report presents 37 annual indicators for the West Coast region across seven economic areas, including key economic indicators for the West Coast region derived from the BERL regional performance database.  Indicators are compared to previous years and, where possible, to the New Zealand average »»