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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…

A fous 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 Zealand and international literature and…

Pacific peoples and tertiary education: Issues of participation

This research focused on the participation patterns of Pacific students in tertiary education and barriers to their participation. It has three parts: a literature review on…

Evaluating the February 1999 Domestic Purposes Benefit and Widows Benefit Reforms: Summary of key findings

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)…

The Evaluation of the Settlement Services Pilots

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…

Literature Review on Pacific Education Issues

This Literature Review on Pasifika Education Issues was commissioned to provide valuable information about those issues for Pacific education which have been researched, and those which…

Medication Issues in counties Manukau Mental Health Services

A 2001 study (Abas, Vanderpyl et al. 2001) identified medication problems as a major reason for admission into hospital. In response, this 2004 study examined stakeholder…

Commonsense, trust and science: How patterns of beliefs and attitudes to science pose challenges for effective communication

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…