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Tony Waldegrave, Diane Anderson and K Wong |
Evaluation of the Short-Term Impacts of the Employment Relations Act 2000 |
This is the main Department of Labour report of the Evaluation of the Employment Relations Act. This paper integrates findings of a range of research projects with employers, employees and unions. 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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Ruth Wallis |
Skilled migrants in New Zealand: a study of settlement outcomes |
This report examines skilled and business migrants’ settlement outcomes, including employment, region of residence, access to services and the migrants’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their housing, children’s schools and other experiences of living in New Zealand. More |
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K Wong, D McLean, A Eng, A `t Mannetje, S Cheng, N Pearce, C Walls and E Dryson |
Health Outcomes in Former New Zealand Timber Workers Exposed To Pentachlorophenal (PCP) |
Concerns remain about chronic health problems experienced by former timber workers who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) when it was used as an anti-sapstain fungicide treatment in saw mills. The Health Research Council, on behalf of the Department of Labour, issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a research project aimed at clarifying whether the health effects were real and whether they were associated with the PCP exposure. The Centre for Public Health Research was subsequently awarded a contract to conduct: (i) an historical cohort study of mortality (deaths); and (ii) a cross-sectional morbidity survey of current health problems in a randomly selected sample of former sawmill workers from the cohort study. The latter survey included: (iii) the collection of serum samples for dioxin testing. More |
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Colleen Ward |
The Experiences of Migrant Youth |
This research is part of a larger international project, the International Comparative Study of Ethno-Cultural Youth, which relies on survey methodology to examine a range of intra-cultural and intercultural variables and both psychological and social domains of adaptation. More |
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Richard Watson, Paul Gardiner and Dave Mare |
Predicting the Duration of Unemployment Spells |
This research note documents an attempt to predict unemployment duration based on readily observable job seeker characteristics. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 1997:2. More |
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Web Research |
Report of Exploratory Case Study Research Into Precarious Employment |
This paper reports on case study research into non-standard employment in four industries (cleaning, call centres, construction labour hire and fish processing), and investigates the factors that contribute to employment being experienced as “precarious”. More |
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Nan Wehipeihana and Rebekah Pratt |
A focus on employment retention |
A meta-analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take up and retain employment. More |
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Richard Whatman |
Case Study Research in the Accommodation, Wine making and Brewing Industries |
This paper details the results and method of case study research into the effects of employment regulation upon employment in the Accommodation, Winemaking and Brewing Industries. Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1999/4. 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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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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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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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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Liliana Winkelmann and Rainer Winkelmann |
Immigrants in New Zealand: A Study of their Labour Market Outcomes |
This paper studies the labour market outcomes of New Zealand’s overseas-born population, using individual record data from the 1981, 1986 and 1996 Population Censuses. Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1998/1. More |
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Liliana Winkelmann and Rainer Winkelmann |
Immigrants in the New Zealand Labour Market: a Cohort Analysis using 1981, 1986 and 1996 Census Data |
This study examines the relative labour market position of immigrants using unit record data from the 1981, 1986, and 1996 Population Censuses. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 1998: 1&2. More |
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Liliana Winkelmann and Rainer Winkelmann |
Determining the relative labour force status of Maori and non-Maori using a multinomial logit model |
Estimates of the effects of age, education, marital and parental status, local unemployment rates and type of location on the probability of being in full-time employment, in part-time employment, unemployed or out of the labour force. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 1997:1. More |
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Roopali Johri, Marc de Boer, Heide Pusch, Sankar Ramasamy and K Wong |
Evidence to date on the working and effectiveness of ALMPs in New Zealand |
ALMPs are intervention programmes and policies that actively assist people into employment. This report summarises the evidence from recent New Zealand employment programme evaluations, compares the New Zealand results to available international evidence on similar programmes, and identifies gaps in our knowledge. More |
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Meenakshi Sankar and K Wong |
Factors that help/hinder community economic development: Emerging learnings from CEDAR |
The Community Economic Development Action Research Project (CEDAR) was designed to identify factors that contribute to successful community economic development. More |
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Bernard Woodhams |
Employment Relationship Problems: Costs, Benefits and Choices |
This report presents key findings from recent Department of Labour research on employment relationship problems (ERPs), and the processes for resolving them. |
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Cathy Wylie |
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 other social/economic policies such as benefits and taxation. Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1997/2. More |
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