Browse by Subject - Employment policy / active labour market policy

Dean Hyslop and Steven Stillman

Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
February, 2004

This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since 2001. More

Pamela Lee

Strategies to Return Injured Workers to Sustainable Earnings - An International Literature Review
July, 2003

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

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
September, 2004

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

Paul Callister

Parental Leave in New Zealand 2005/2006 Evaluation
May, 2007

Conducted by the Department of Labour this evaluation examines the effectiveness of New Zealand’s parental leave legislation. The evaluation explores the decision-making and experiences of working parents before, during and after parental leave. Employers are also asked about their experiences and the evaluation includes feedback from parents ineligible for parental leave. More

Susan Kell Associates

Parental Leave And Carers Leave: International Provision And Research
May, 2007

Produced by Susan Kell Associates, for the Department of Labour, the report reviews available research and information on the international provision of parental leave and carers’ leave arrangements, as well as any proposed changes for the future.
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Bernard Woodhams

Employment Relationship Problems: Costs, Benefits and Choices
August, 2007

This report presents key findings from recent Department of Labour research on employment relationship problems (ERPs), and the processes for resolving them.

The research included surveys of the public and private sectors, and qualitative case studies of individual ERPs. More

Alan Cooper

Keeping Work Safe Enforcement Policy
May, 2009

This policy statement is for anyone who may have an interest in how the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 is enforced in New Zealand workplaces. It sets out key principles and processes for enforcing the Act and describes what people with duties under the Act can expect in response to a range of situations. More

Department of Labour

Plan of Action to Prevent People Trafficking
July, 2009

The Plan of Action to Prevent People Trafficking is a proactive whole-of-government approach to people trafficking issues for New Zealand, outlining a comprehensive response to any future people trafficking cases. More

Donella Bellet

Work Capacity Assessment Trial, Phase One results, evaluation report
November, 1999

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

Simon Chapple

Displacement Effects of Active Labour Market Policy
September, 1999

In theory, active labour market policies provide a way to deliver a high wage-high employment society. However, the increased employment of targeted groups may be at the expense of other groups in society. This phenomenon is known as “displacement”. More

Rhema Vaithianathan

Equality: Outcomes or Opportunities? A Review of the Literature
August, 1995

This paper examines the concepts of equality of opportunity and equality of outcomes, with particular attention to the application of these concepts in labour market policy debates. Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1995/2. More

Robert Gill

Inventory of Labour Market Measures
October, 1989

Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1989/3. More

Dave Mare

The impact of employment policy interventions
March, 2002

This paper estimates the impact of different categories of employment policy interventions on subsequent outcomes for job seekers. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 2000-2. More

David Grimmond

A report card on the New Zealand labour market
February, 2003

This paper looks at a range of indicators of labour market performance over the last three economic cycles. More