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Juthika Badkar |
Life In New Zealand: Settlement Experiences of Skilled Migrants |
This report examines skilled and business migrants’ settlement experiences and outcomes 12 months after residence approval. This includes employment, income, access to services and the migrants’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their housing, children’s schools and other experiences of living in New Zealand. |
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Paul Callister, Richard Bedford, Robert Didham, Juthika Badkar and Vasantha Krishnan |
Patterns Of Gendered Skilled And Temporary Migration Into New Zealand |
New Zealand has a long history of gendered migration and this has affected the overall gender balance in the population. This report attempts to provide a starting point for discussions about gendered migration into New Zealand. More |
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Juthika Badkar |
Life in New Zealand: Settlement Experiences of Skilled Migrants Results from the 2007 Survey |
This report details the findings from the 2007 Settlement Experience Feedback Survey (SEFS) of migrants who took up residence in New Zealand through the Skilled/Business Stream from January 2006 to June 2006. The survey is sent out to these migrants 12 months after residence approval or arrival into New Zealand. Therefore, these migrants were surveyed from 1 January 2007 to 31 June 2007. This report also contains information on trends (from 2005 to 2007) on the key settlement outcomes of principal applicants. |
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Inez Bailey |
International Workforce Literacy Review: Ireland |
This review outlines the work that is taking place in the area of workforce literacy in Ireland. It was written in July 2007 drawing on data and information available at that time. |
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Meenakshi Sankar, Robyn Bailey and Bob Williams |
Doing Action Research |
This paper discusses experiences in doing action research and shares some methodological insights with other practitioners. |
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Paul Callister, Richard Bedford and Robert Didham |
Globalisation, gendered migration and labour markets |
The research report explores why there are increasingly more women than men in New Zealand and what impact this may be having on the labour market. More |
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Nicola Beentjes and Susan Reid |
Foundation Skills In Seasonal Workplaces Phase II Report 1 |
The Department of Labour (DOL) engaged Workbase: The New Zealand Centre for Workforce Literacy Development to complete Phase II of the Foundation Skills in Seasonal Workplaces (FSSW) project. Phase I explored barriers to engaging in foundation skills training and identified levers to overcome these barriers. Phase II aimed to provide an understanding of specific foundation skills needs in the horticulture and viticulture seasonal industries. |
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Donella Bellet |
Work Capacity Assessment Trial, Phase One results, evaluation report |
The report gives the results of a process evaluation conducted by the Department of Labour in consultation with the Ministry of Social Policy and the Department of Work and Income. Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1999/5. More |
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John Benseman and Alison Sutton |
A synthesis of foundation learning evaluation and research in New Zealand since 2003 |
This synthesis provides an overview of research and evaluation information drawn from all recent New Zealand adult literacy, language and numeracy (LLN) initiatives. The report was commissioned by the Department of Labour to inform the Upskilling Partnership project, which is researching approaches to engage employers in workplace literacy, language and numeracy programmes, to help raise their productivity. More |
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Business and Economic Research Ltd - BERL |
The Economic Impact of Immigration on Housing in New Zealand 1991–2016 |
A descriptive analysis of trends using the 1991 to 2006 censuses found that the number of new households being created between censuses has been relatively stable (ranging from 80,000 between 1996 and 2001 to 109,000 between 2001 and 2006). |
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Business and Economic Research Ltd - BERL |
Fiscal Impacts of Migrants to New Zealand |
An exploratory study in 1997/98 followed by a further study of the fiscal impact of migrants to New Zealand for the 2001/2002 fiscal year. More |
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Business and Economic Research Ltd - BERL |
Measuring the total cost of injury in New Zealand: A review of alternative cost methodologies |
This report provides a basic framework for measuring the total cost of injury in New Zealand. It reviews the methods of valuation that have been applied elsewhere and indicates how these methods might be applied in New Zealand. More |
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Louise Wignall and Robert Bluer |
International Workforce Literacy Review: Australia |
This review outlines the work that is taking place in the area of workforce literacy in Australia. It was written in June 2007 drawing on data and information available at that time. Since the report was written, the Australian Labor Party replaced the Coalition government after winning the Federal election in November 2007. Subsequently, the Department of Education Science and Training (DEST) (referred to in the report) has been replaced by the Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relations. |
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Stephen Dunstan, Sharon Boyd and Sarah Crichton |
Migrants'' Experiences of New Zealand |
Pilot Survey report for Longitudinal Immigration Survey: New Zealand (LisNZ) More |
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Caroline Boyd |
Migrants in New Zealand: An analysis of Labour Market Outcomes for Working Aged Migrants Using 1996 and 2001 Census Data |
The objective of this paper is to compare the labour market outcomes of recent and long- term migrants of working age (15-64) with those of working age New Zealand born, using the 1996 and 2001 Population censuses. More |
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Ruth Wallis and BRC Marketing and Social Research Ltd |
Skilled Migrants in New Zealand: Employers’ Perspectives |
This report explores New Zealand employers’ perspectives on the benefits of, and issues associated with, employing skilled migrants. More |
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Richard Whatman, Mary Adams, Jo Burton, Frances Butcher, Sue Graham, Andrew McLeod, Rashmi Rajan, Margaret Bridge, Dr Roberta Hill and Roopali Johri |
Aftermath - How the Lives of Fifteen Ordinary New Zealanders have been affected by Workplace Injury and Illness |
A booklet that presents, in a shortened form, the case histories featured in the "Aftermath - The Social and Economic Consequences of Workplace Injury and Illness" study and concentrates on the human and personal dimension, omitting the detailed social and economic analyses of the full report. More |
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Richard Whatman, Mary Adams, Jo Burton, Frances Butcher, Sue Graham, Andrew McLeod, Rashmi Rajan, Margaret Bridge and Centre for Research on Work, Education & Business |
Aftermath - The Social and Economic Consequences of Workplace Injury and Illness |
To explore the wider costs for society, the Social and Economic Consequences of Workplace Injury and Illness Study aimed to gain an understanding of the full range of consequences of workplace illness and injury. More |
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Sally Brinsdon |
Patterns in the Sponsorship of Social Migrants |
The focus of this research was on the sponsors of social category migrants, and the sponsorship process. Research objectives included determining the proportions of New Zealand-born to migrant sponsors, the proportions of applicants and sponsors originating from the same countries, and the distribution of migrant-sponsors across residence categories. More |
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Richard Bururu, David Irwin and Duncan Melville |
Labour Market Trends and Outlook - 1999 |
A summary of recent economic and labour market trends and the outlook for the labour market over the next two years. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 1998: 1&2. More |
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Business NZ and Industry Training Federation of NZ |
Business New Zealand, Skills and Training Survey |
This report presents the results of a survey of Business New Zealand members about their training and development practices. More |
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Frances Butcher and Andrew Stewart-Loughnan |
Reporting on Workplace Health and Safety and Employment Relations: a stock-take of current practice |
The stock-take of New Zealand’s one hundred largest employers showing levels, quality and principles of health and safety and employment relations reporting through annual reports. More |
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Judith Byrne |
Literature Review on Community Development |
There has been something of a trend internationally towards development at a community level, involving "bottom-up", community-generated solutions to intractable economic and social problems, rather than the application of "one size fits all", "top-down" policies and initiatives from central government. Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1999/6. More |
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