Sholeh Maani — productivity and skills — Treasury webinar🍋
Tuesday, 12 March @11am NZDT — free of charge & open to all
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Professor Sholeh Maani will present Productivity and skills – progress and policy learnings from five generations of research, the next webinar in Treasury’s Productivity in a Changing World series.
The webinar will be on Tuesday, 12 March 2024 from 11:00am to 12:30pm NZDT. Please register here to attend online.
The links between education, skills & productivity, and their effect on lifetime earnings
Professor Sholeh Maani will present the progression and advancements in economics research on the links between education, skills and productivity, and their effect on lifetime earnings. She will cover how these advancements have shaped economic policy, leading to economic outcomes around the world.
She will further discuss the recent strand of studies on the causes and productivity consequences relating to skill-occupational mismatches. The webinar will expand on emerging pivotal questions that are expected to take a more central role in the near future in the skill-productivity space, such as generative AI, and how economics research can tackle them for evaluating policy options.
About Sholeh Maani
Professor Sholeh Maani is the Disciplinary Area Lead for Econometrics and Applied Economics at the University of Auckland. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics, in particular the economics of the labour market.
Sholeh has held visiting professor positions at Harvard, NBER, Oxford, Cornell and Melbourne Universities. She has served as a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Social Science Advisory Committee, and as the President of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
She serves as a research advisor on economic research and policy in New Zealand and overseas including the OECD, as well as on international academic boards. Her published work includes studies on skills, productivity and wage determination; academic performance; income distribution; ethnicity, gender, inter-generational analyses, and group network effects. Her current research is on labour market outcomes of increased education; skill-occupation mismatches; and the economic impacts of skilled immigration.
Productivity in a changing world
New ideas, cutting-edge thinking, research and evidence are all critical for stimulating and informing our work at the Treasury. Our guest lecture series provides insights from the work of experts in New Zealand and internationally. These seminars are open to everyone, as we want to facilitate learning and debate on the important issues facing New Zealand.
Our current guest lectures theme — Productivity in a changing world — recognises that lifting our productivity performance continues to be central to improving New Zealanders’ wellbeing; and that we are facing this challenge in the context of significant economic, social and environmental shifts. These shifts will require major changes in our economy if we are to sustain and improve our economic and productivity performance.
By Tim Ng, Strategic Economic Advisor, NZ Treasury
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