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Work Poor Or Working Poor? A Comparative Perpestictive on New Zealands Jobless Households

In recent years, researchers have identified a growth in both "work-poor" and "work-rich" households in several OECD countries, including New Zealand, indicating an increasing concentration of…

Human Capital Issues in an Ageing Workforce

Almost half the New Zealand workforce is now over the age of 40. This ageing trend will continue as smaller cohorts follow the baby boom bulge…

Estimating the Impact of Employment Programmes on Participants’ Outcomes

This report summarises what has been learnt so far in estimating employment programme impact using administrative data in the New Zealand context. The report covers issues…

Evaluation of Avenues: Evaluation of Migrant Pilot Projects in Auckland North, Auckland Central, Waikato and Central Regions 2002

This report summarises four pilot schemes, completed in 2000/2001, designed to address issues related to the difficulties experienced by migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds who have…

Report on Maternity 2000 & 2001

This is the second in the series of annual data analysing New Zealand maternity services. It contains information on the outcomes, availablity and utilisation of maternity…

Assessing The Progress On Poverty Reduction

This paper presents the summary results of the New Zealand Poverty Measurement Project's analysis of the incidence and severity of poverty during the 1990s, and assesses…

Strengthening Communities through Local Partnerships: Building a Collaborative Research Project

This paper reflects on the early stages of a Foundation for Research, Science and Technology social research project aimed at identifying the overall range, scope and…

New Zealand Living Standards: Their Measurement and Variation, with an Application To Policy

This paper describes the recently published ELSI scale for measuring living standards.  It discusses results with major significance for social policy (including living standard distributions for…

Raising Children in New Zealand: Family Resilience and Good Child Outcomes - a Review of the Literature

This report is the third volume in the Ministry of Social Development’s new research series Raising Children in New Zealand. The series was established as a…

Youth Transitions Report Series 2003

Government has the goal of having by 2007, all 15 to 19 year olds in work, education or training, or other activities that contribute to their…