Experience and suitability of job applicants: two policy issues from a survey of employers Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 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…
An analysis of New Zealand's Business Demography Database Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 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…
A fous on employment retention: A meta analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take-up and retain employment Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 The barriers associated with employment retention, for people moving off benefit and into paid work, are well documented in the New Zealand and international literature and…
Change in the distribution of income of the working age population 1976-96 Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 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…
The Evaluation of the Settlement Services Pilots Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2002 This report 'The Evaluation of the Settlement Services Pilots' describes an evaluation of pilot projects that were set up to provide for the settlement needs of…
Evaluating the February 1999 Domestic Purposes Benefit and Widows Benefit Reforms: Summary of key findings Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2002 This paper reports on the findings of the evaluation and monitoring strategy that focused on policy reforms for Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) and Widows Benefit (WB)…
Commonsense, trust and science: How patterns of beliefs and attitudes to science pose challenges for effective communication Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 Report on an investigation into what the public thinks, knows, and feels about science. The research involved a telephone survey of 800 members of the New Zealand public, and small-scale…
The impact of employment policy interventions Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 This paper estimates the impact of different categories of employment policy interventions on subsequent outcomes for jobseekers. We generate a range of estimates to help us…
The unemployment spells of registered job seekers Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 This paper estimates the impact of different categories of employment policy interventions on subsequent outcomes for jobseekers. We generate a range of estimates to help us…
An analysis of disparity between Pacific and non-Pacific peoples’ labour market outcomes in the Household Labour Force Survey Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 This paper analyses disparity in labour market outcomes by examining the employment rate gap between Pacific peoples and the rest of the New Zealand population.