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Returns to post-school qualifications: New evidence based on the HLFS Income Supplement (1997-2002)

This study is concerned with the causal effects of post-school education on individuals’ income and earnings. The study builds on and extends previous New Zealand research…

The business case for firm-level work-life balance policies: a review of the literature

This literature review reviews the international and New Zealand literature on the business case for adopting work-life balance policies. The business case is established by weighing…

Functional Labour Markets Revealed by Travel to Work data 1991 and 2001

Regional labour market analysis is ideally based on functional rather than administrative areas. Travel-to-work data obtained from the 1991 and 2001 Census are used to define…

Evaluation of the Short-Term Impacts of the Employment Relations Act 2000

The evaluation of the short-term impacts of the Employment Relations Act was undertaken by the Department of Labour. The evaluation focused on the extent to which…

Trends in Residence Approvals 2002/03

This report is the third in a series produced annually to provide background information about trends in residence approvals. The reports are written in a readily…

Factors that help/hinder community economic development: Emerging learnings from CEDAR

The purpose of this paper is to look back over the three years of Community Economic Development Action Research (CEDAR) project and share some of the…

Report of the Business NZ Skills and Training Survey 2003

This report provides the results of a survey conducted by Business NZ in conjunction with the Department of Labour and the Industry Training Federation, and funded…

Migrants in New Zealand: An Analysis of 2001 Census Data

This report was developed to update, and further develop, a profile of the demographic characteristics of migrants to New Zealand. The analysis is provided for all…

Skilled Migrants: Labour Market Experiences

This report consists of two research projects that describe and analyse some of the outcomes of the General Skills Category (GSC) policy. Part A is an…

New Zealand's Labour Market from 1991 - 2001: Evidence of Upskilling?

In this paper, I investigate the prospect that there has been a general ‘upskilling’(understood as extensive skill-biased technological change) in the New Zealand workforce. This research,…