Wage inequality
Alternative labels
Pay equity
Wages inequality
Research Summary
Pay gaps – an $18 billion a year issue
This research note estimates the aggregate size of gender and ethnic pay gaps in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Report
Gender Equity Insights 2023: accelerating the pace of change
This report looks at which types of companies are progressing gender equity outcomes most effectively, and which are falling being. In this way, the authors identify what policies and strategies work, and what distinguishes stagnation from success. For this 2023 report, the authors develop a new maturity framework that differentiates organisations based on their approach...
Discussion paper
A tax shift for our future
Prosper Australia believes it’s time to talk about a tax shift for Australia's future. This discussion paper aims to kick start the debate.
Working paper
Estimating the distribution of wealth in New Zealand
This paper discusses alternative methods to estimate the distribution of wealth in New Zealand, adapting a taxable income capitalisation method that suggests more wealth at the top of the distribution than previously estimated.
Working paper
The wage cost of a lack of access to affordable childcare in Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper estimates New Zealand mothers with children under age three who are not working only because they can’t access childcare may be foregoing $116 million or more of wages each year.