286 results in multiple government agencies
Last Publication Date: 13 Oct 1999
This report defines and discusses future implementation of the 'Human Capability Framework'. It first outlines the framework, including a description of 'advance wellbeing'. It then discusses…
Last Publication Date: 1 Oct 1999
This research was commissioned by the Labour Market Policy Group (LMPG) of the Department of Labour to evaluate the impact of the legislative changes on workplace…
Last Publication Date: 1 Sep 1999
This paper focuses on the displacement effects of employment programmes. A simple definition of displacement is any changes in employment elsewhere in the economy as a…
Last Publication Date: 17 Sep 1998
As part of its research investigating the settlement experiences and outcomes of recent migrants to New Zealand, the New Zealand Immigration Service explored the experiences of business…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 1998
Changes in the distribution of earnings in New Zealand between 1984 and 1997 are examined in this paper. There is evidence of growth in the inequality…
This article considers the attitudes of a small sample of unemployed people towards the characteristics of potential jobs, how they search for jobs, and which of…
Last Publication Date: 1 Nov 1997
This study describes maternal labour market participation and childcare use in Australia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, in the context of government support for childcare, and…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 1997
Using a stratified sample of 150,000-unit record data on the Māori and non-Māori working-age population from the New Zealand censuses of 1981, 1986 and 1991, this study estimates multinomial logit…
This paper presents the results of research into the effects of minimum wages on employment in New Zealand. Two different approaches are taken one based…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jul 1996
The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) was commissioned by the Department of Labour to undertake a literature survey on types and approaches of government…
