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Weshah Razzak |
Towards Building A New Consensus About New Zealand’s Productivity |
This paper examines common methodologies that have been typically used to estimate productivity numbers in New Zealand and issues like trend estimation, convergence and spillovers (increasing returns to scale). More |
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David Grimmond |
A report card on the New Zealand labour market |
This paper looks at a range of indicators of labour market performance over the last three economic cycles. More |
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William Dillingham |
New Zealand''s Labour Market from 1991 - 2001: Evidence of Upskilling? |
Hope supported by anecdotes has convinced many New Zealanders that the economy is transitioning to a high-skilled dynamo. Not all the evidence supports this but in the latter half of the 1990s, New Zealand did enjoy significant upskilling. 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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NZ Immigration Service |
Migrants In N.Z.: An Analysis of 2001 Census Data |
The objectives of this study were to update, and further develop, a profile of the demographic characteristics of migrants to New Zealand, including migrants’ settling patterns in New Zealand and their participation in the labour market. More |
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NZ Immigration Service |
Skilled Migrants: Labour Market Experiences |
This report consists of two projects that describe and analyse some of the outcomes of the General Skills Category (GSC) policy. 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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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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Pamela Lee |
Strategies to Return Injured Workers to Sustainable Earnings - An International Literature Review |
The purpose of the Return to Sustainable Earnings project is to consider the extent to which current policy settings are adequate to assist workers, who are disabled through injury, to return to sustainable earnings. More |
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NZ Immigration Service |
Trends in Residence Approvals (series) |
This series of annual reports summarises information about people approved for New Zealand residence. More |
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Colmar Brunton |
Employer and Employee Perceptions of OSH Investigation Processes |
This research was commissioned to report on workplace participants perceptions of their interactions with OSH. The four objectives of the research were to identify key satisfaction dimensions, satisfaction on the dimensions, how satisfaction varies across event types (accident or complaint) and type of response (category A/B or limited response), and to identify ways OSH could improve its interactions. More |
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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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James O Newell and Martin Perry |
Functional Labour Markets Revealed by Travel to Work data 1991 and 2001 |
Regional labour market analysis is ideally based on functional rather than administrative areas. Travel-to-work data obtained from the 1991 and 2001 Census are used to define a set of functional labour markets for New Zealand. More |
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Department of Labour |
Health and Safety Reporting in the Annual Reports of New Zealand''s 100 Largest Employers |
This report details the findings of an ‘iterative stock-take’ study of the provision of health and safety information in the annual reports of New Zealand’s largest companies (using Full Time Equivalent Employee numbers supplied by ACC). It also includes limited information on the frequency, but not the quality, of environmental and social impact monitoring. More |
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