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Youth Transition Services: Lessons for Service Development

Youth transition services aim to assist young people to make the transition from school into further education, training or employment. This report presents key development and…

34 VOICES: New Zealand Business and Worker Interviews on Sick Leave and Parental Leave

The purpose of 34 Voices:  New Zealand Business and Worker Interviews on Sick Leave and Parental Leave is to gain insights into work-leave from those who…

Whanau Development Project: Final Evaluation Report

The Whanau Development Project piloted a devolved funding approach that involved the Ministry of Social Development providing funding and support for whanau, hapu, iwi and Maori…

Measuring the Economic Impact of Immigration: A Scoping Paper

Immigration is a complex phenomenon that affects New Zealand in many different ways. This report is concerned with measurement of economic aspects of the impact of…

Working Holidaymakers in New Zealand

This research was carried out by the Department of Labour’s Immigration Service as part of our work in responding to a Cabinet decision in November 2003…

Wellbeing, Employment, Independence : the Views of Sickness and Invalids' Benefit Clients

This working paper presents the findings and conclusions from a joint Ministry of Social Development and Victoria University of Wellington research project that sought to uncover…

The future of work within households: Understanding household-level changes in the distribution of hours of paid work

In New Zealand, the weekly paid hours worked by individuals have generally not been considered in the context of hours of paid work of other adults…

The Nova Scotia Genuine Progress Index: Insights for New Zealand

This working paper describes the Nova Scotia Genuine Progress Index and recommends next steps for New Zealand to improve its social wellbeing reporting framework, with the…

Aspirations of rurally disadvantaged Maori youth for their transition from secondary school to further education or training and work

“He tini whetu ki te rangi, ko Ngati Maru ki raro He tini ika ki te moana, ko Ngati Maru ki uta”                                                                                                           .(Ngati Maru pepeha)…

The Impact of Employment Experiences and Benefit-Spell Duration on Benefit-to-Work Transitions

This paper uses an experimental dataset under development at Statistics New Zealand, the Linked Employer-Employee Database (LEED), to examine labour market outcomes for individuals previously receiving…