The Treasury has incorporated into this website working papers and research papers and associated material formerly published by the New Zealand Productivity Commission.
The Productivity Commission was disestablished in February 2024 and much of its website material was transferred to the Treasury website. See Productivity Commission (2011 - 2024) for more details of the Commission's inquiry and corporate material that was also transferred.
An evidence base to build understanding of Aotearoa New Zealand's productivity performance and the role of policy in lifting productivity
The goal of the Productivity Commission's research was to facilitate a move from an economy that grows by using more "inputs" (such as labour or natural resources) to one where productivity plays a greater role in driving economic growth – essentially working smarter, with greater financial and knowledge capital employed per worker.
The Commission's research explored a range of issues related to productivity: employment, firm dynamics, technology diffusion, innovation, regional development, spatial and public-sector productivity.
The Commission's research publications have been incorporated into this website under two series.
Productivity Commission working papers
- There are 31 working papers, some of which have supporting data files.
- These have identifiers such as PCWP 2014/02 that help distinguish them from Treasury working papers.
- See all in a Publication search on Productivity Commission working papers.
Productivity Commission research papers
- There are 82 research papers, some of which have supporting data files.
- These often have no identifier. The Commission may have referred to them as 'Research notes' or 'Research papers'.
- See all such papers using a Publication search on Productivity Commission research papers.
Note: These paper series are distinct from the Treasury's own discontinued Productivity papers series published 2008 to 2010.
Incorporation into Treasury research and commentary A-Z finding aids
Personal (named) authors of Productivity Commission working papers and research papers have been added to the Research and commentary (by author) finding aid.
If a paper had JEL classifications assigned to it by its original authors, it can be found in the Research and commentary (by JEL classification) finding aid.
The Treasury has not assigned subject terms to the Productivity Commission papers, so they do not appear in the Research and commentary (by subject) finding aid.
Redirects from productivity.govt.nz
All productivity.govt.nz web traffic is being redirected to the Productivity Commission Disestablishment landing page.
The Treasury has published a data file that allows people linking to Productivity Commission material (for example in citations in their own research) to identify a new URL for material that has been re-published on the Treasury website. See Productivity Commission Website URLs Mapped to Treasury Website URLs.