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Philippa Yasbek |
The business case for firm-level work-life balance policies: a review of the literature |
This paper reviews the international and New Zealand literature on the business case for adopting work-life balance policies. More |
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Occupational Safety and Health Service and Ministry of Economic Development |
The Costs and Benefits of Complying with the HSE Act, 1992 |
The business sector has expressed ongoing concern that the Health and Safety in Employment Act, 1992 (the HSE Act) is imposing unnecessary and/or excessive costs, particularly on small-to-medium sized companies. Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 2001/4. More |
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Sylvia Dixon |
The Distribution of Earnings in New Zealand |
Changes in the distribution of individual earnings are examined in this paper, using previously unanalysed data from the Household Economic Survey. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 1996:1. More |
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Simon Chapple and John Savage |
The Economic Effects of Industrial Relations Systems: A Literature Review |
This report reviews recent international research on the economic effects of alternative industrial relations systems. Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1995/1. 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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Department of Labour |
The Effect of the Employment Relations Act 2000 on Collective Bargaining |
This research aimed to examine whether the Employment Relations Act has had any significant effect on the coverage and content of collective bargaining. It has been undertaken to inform employment relations policy work in the Department of Labour. More |
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Tim Maloney |
The effects of in-school and in-tertiary employment on academic achievement and labour market transitions: Evidence from the Christchurch Health and Development Study |
This study investigates the effects of working for pay on the lives of young people who are in school or tertiary study, using data from the Christchurch Health and Development Study. More |
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Kerry L Papps and Dave Mare |
The effects of occupational safety and health interventions |
This study examines the effectiveness of government legislation in reducing the incidence of workplace accidents and other health and safety risks in New Zealand. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 2000-2. More |
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NZ Immigration Service |
The Evaluation of the Settlement Services Pilots |
This evaluation report describes pilot projects that were set up to provide for the settlement needs of new migrants and the resettlement of refugees. 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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Paul Callister |
The future of work within households: Understanding household-level changes in the distribution of hours of paid work |
This research project looks at the changes in working hours by household from 1986 to 2001. More |
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NZ Immigration Service |
The Immigration Consulting Industry in New Zealand |
The purpose of this research was to describe aspects of the New Zealand immigration consulting industry. More |
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Dave Mare |
The impact of employment policy interventions |
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 |
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Dave Mare and Steven Stillman |
The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of New Zealanders |
This research estimates the impact of inflows of recent immigrants on the wages and employment of earlier migrants, the New Zealand-born workers, and recent migrants themselves. More |
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University of Auckland Business School |
The Integration of Highly Skilled Migrants into the Labour Market: Implications for New Zealand Business |
The objectives of this report were to examine the labour market integration experiences of highly skilled migrants to New Zealand, and the attitudes of New Zealand businesses towards employing highly skilled migrants. More |
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Sylvia Dixon |
The Inter-Industry Wage Structure: 1971 - 1994 |
Changes in New Zealand’s inter-industry wage structure between 1971 and 1994 are examined in this paper. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 1995:1. More |
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Dave Mare and Steven Stillman |
The Labour Market Adjustment of Immigrants in New Zealand |
This research uses data from the 1997 – 2007 New Zealand Income Survey to examine the path of economic outcomes of immigrants in New Zealand. More |
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Sylvia Dixon |
The Measurement of Productivity in New Zealand: An Introduction |
Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1990/3. More |
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Owen Harvey and Peter Harris |
The Skills-Productivity Nexus : Connecting Industry Training and Business Performance |
This report has been written as part of a joint Department of Labour/Industry Training Federation project aimed at improving the ability of Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) to assist workplaces to raise their productivity. The report sets out results of a literature scan exploring the links between skills, their application, and productivity, and also documents the experience of a number of manufacturing ITOs in expanding the breadth of their services beyond skills development. More |
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David Rea and Maria Gobbi |
The unemployment spells of registered job seekers |
This paper analyses the unemployment spell experiences of registered job seekers over a four-year period. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 2002-2. More |
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Alison Gray and Alison Sutton |
The Workplace Literacy Fund |
This is a review of the Workplace Literacy Fund (funded and administered by the Tertiary Education Committee (TEC)) which subsidises literacy, language and numeracy programmes in the workplace. The review looks at programmes that were funded in 2006. More |
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Simon Chapple and David Rea |
Time series analysis of disparity between Maori and non-Maori labour market outcomes in the Household Labour Force Survey |
This note considers changes in disparity in labour market outcomes over time between Maori and non-Maori using Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) data. Published in the Labour Market Bulletin, Issue 1998:1&2. More |
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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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Paul Callister |
Trends in Employee Tenure, Turnover and Work Scheduling Patterns: A Review of the Empirical Research Evidence |
This paper reviews published research evidence on trends in employees’ tenure, turnover, and work scheduling patterns. Published in the Department of Labour Occasional Paper series as 1997/1. 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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Steven Stillman |
Trends in Youth Activity in New Zealand from 1985-2004 |
Limited information is currently available on youth activity in New Zealand. This paper uses data primarily from the Household Economic Survey (HES) to provide a comprehensive picture of the activities undertaken by New Zealand youth during this transition to adulthood from 1985 to 2004. More |
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