Trends in Youth Activity in New Zealand from 1985-2004 Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2006 Limited information is currently available on youth activity in New Zealand. This paper uses data primarily from the Household Economic Survey (HES) to provide a comprehensive…
Household Spending on Culture: 2006 Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2006 Cultural activities play a significant part in the daily lives of New Zealanders, contributing, among other things, to our national identity and our understanding of ourselves…
Successful benefit-to-work transitions? Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2006 This study uses data from New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Database (LEED) to examine the longer-term employment outcomes of adults who moved from a government income support…
People on the Move: A study of migrant movement patterns to and from New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2006 One long-term measure of a migrant’s successful settlement and contribution to the country is the extent to which they remain in the country after taking up…
Globalisation, gendered migration and labour markets Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2006 In New Zealand, in all age groups under 20, and in key working age groups, historically there have been more men than women. However, census data…
Upskilling through foundation skills - A literature review Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2005 This literature review is intended to inform a work programme on lifting the literacy, language and numeracy (LLN) skills of the workforce. The work programme will…
Aggregates and individual wage earnings in LEED Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2005 Longitudinal analyses with continuous repeated outcomes provide fuller insight into population and individual behaviour over time. Insights into processes of social change can thus be greatly…
Survival analysis of transitions from benefit to work Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2005 What factors affect the probability that a person makes a transition from benefit to employment? What is the effect of those factors? Given information such as…
Work values and the quality of employment: a literature review Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 This paper reviews the literature on what people value in employment and on methods of measuring the quality of employment, with a view to measuring it…
Returning to work from injury Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2005 New Zealand has a comprehensive accident insurance system that pays much of the direct cost of accidental injuries, and compensates workers 80 percent of their earnings…
