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A focus on employment retention - A meta analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take-up and retain employment

The barriers associated with employment retention, for people moving off benefit and into paid work, are well documented in the New Zealand1 and international literature and are often…

Experience and suitability of job applicants: two policy issues from a survey of employers

A survey of Christchurch employers advertising job vacancies in January 2001 found that far more positions required experience in a similar job than required a specific…

Change in the distribution of income of the working age population 1976-96

Census data are used to analyse changes in the distribution of income among the working-age population (15 to 59 years) between 1976 and 1996. The income…

An analysis of New Zealand's Business Demography Database

Longitudinal employer information for a linked employer-employee dataset in New Zealand will likely come from the business demography database maintained by Statistics New Zealand. The success…

A fous on employment retention: A meta analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take-up and retain employment

The barriers associated with employment retention, for people moving off benefit and into paid work, are well documented in the New Zealand and international literature and…

Evaluating the February 1999 Domestic Purposes Benefit and Widows Benefit Reforms: Summary of key findings

This paper reports on the findings of the evaluation and monitoring strategy that focused on policy reforms for Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) and Widows Benefit (WB)…

The Evaluation of the Settlement Services Pilots

This report 'The Evaluation of the Settlement Services Pilots' describes an evaluation of pilot projects that were set up to provide for the settlement needs of…

The Social Report 2002

The Social Report 2002 Update is the second stage in the programme of social monitoring initiated by The Social Report 2001. It aims to provide up-to-date…

Raising Children in New Zealand: Exploring Good Outcomes for Young People

As part of its family dynamics/family effectiveness research programme, the Ministry of Social Development commissioned research in 2000 to explore the views of families, young people…

The impact of employment policy interventions

This paper estimates the impact of different categories of employment policy interventions on subsequent outcomes for jobseekers. We generate a range of estimates to help us…