Functional Labour Markets Revealed by Travel to Work data 1991 and 2001 Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2003 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 Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2003 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 Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2003 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…
Report of the Business NZ Skills and Training Survey 2003 Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 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…
Factors that help/hinder community economic development: Emerging learnings from CEDAR Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2003 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…
The needs of Pacific Peoples when they are victims of crime Last Publication Date: 01 May 2003 This report presents and discusses the findings of a qualitative study of the needs of Pacific peoples who have been victims of three types of crime:…
Skilled Migrants: Labour Market Experiences Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2003 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…
Migrants in New Zealand: An Analysis of 2001 Census Data Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2003 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…
A report card on the New Zealand labour market: Improving, Could do better Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2003 The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the performance of the New Zealand labour market in recent years. In particular how has…
New Zealand's Labour Market from 1991 - 2001: Evidence of Upskilling? Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2003 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,…