Labour supply elasticities in New ZealandFootnote^*

* This paper is part of a larger project on ‘Improving New Zealand's Tax Policy via International Tax Transfer Model Benchmarking’, funded by an Endeavour Research Grant from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and awarded to the CPF. Access to the data used in this paper was provided by Statistics New Zealand in accordance with security and confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act 1975. The results presented in this study are the work of the authors, not Statistics New Zealand. We should like to thank Guyonne Kalb, Norman Gemmell and a referee for helpful suggestions and comments.

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