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Towards Building A New Consensus About New Zealand’s Productivity

There is a wide consensus that New Zealand’s productivity has been poor despite the comprehensive market-oriented reforms of the 1980’s. This consensus is based on estimates…

Aftermath: The Social and Economic Consequences of Workplace Injury and Illness

This study was initiated by the Occupational Safety and Health Service (OSH) of the Department of Labour (the Department). Because of the wider interest that was…

Globalisation of Labour Flows and its Impacts on New Zealand

Over the past two decades, international movements of people have increased significantly. This is not migration in the traditional sense – the ease and cheapness of…

An overview of New Zealand and international research on the future of work

This paper reviews the main developments in work and employment in recent times, and discusses the driving forces behind them. Because of the broad range of…

Trends in Residence Approvals 2001/2002 - Volume 2

This is the second annual ‘Trends in Residence Approvals’ report. The broad aim of these reports is to provide background data on trends in residence approvals…

Business Immigration: The Evaluation of the 1999 Business Immigration Policy

The main purpose of this report was to document an evaluation of the business immigration policy, which was introduced in April 1999. The main aim of…

A focus on employment retention - A meta analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take-up and retain employment

The barriers associated with employment retention, for people moving off benefit and into paid work, are well documented in the New Zealand1 and international literature and are often…

Experience and suitability of job applicants: two policy issues from a survey of employers

A survey of Christchurch employers advertising job vacancies in January 2001 found that far more positions required experience in a similar job than required a specific…

Change in the distribution of income of the working age population 1976-96

Census data are used to analyse changes in the distribution of income among the working-age population (15 to 59 years) between 1976 and 1996. The income…

An analysis of New Zealand's Business Demography Database

Longitudinal employer information for a linked employer-employee dataset in New Zealand will likely come from the business demography database maintained by Statistics New Zealand. The success…