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Department of Labour - merged into Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) formed 1 July 2012

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Change in the distribution of income of the working age population, 1976–1996

This paper employs census data to look at the change in distribution of income individuals of working age (15 to 59 years). 

The Effects of Employment Regulation

This Occasional Paper details the results and method of case study research, undertaken by the Labour Market Policy Group (LMPG) and the Centre for Research on Work,…

Human Capability: A Framework for Analysis

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…

Evaluation of the ACC Reforms: Case study research

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…

Displacement effects of active labour market policy

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…

Experiences of Recent Business Migrants in New Zealand

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…

Growth in the dispersion of earnings: 1984–97

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…

A summary of the results of a survey of unemployed workers in the Auckland Eastern Suburbs

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…

Childcare / Early Childhood Education in a Labour Market Context in Australia, Sweden and the United Kingdom

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…

Determining the relative labour force status of Māori and non-Māori using a multinomial logit model

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…