The Labour Market Adjustment of Immigrants in New Zealand Report

Table 6: OLS regression of occupation classified by average wages by gender
	Male				Female
	Age/ Qual	Hhold	Cohort FE	Mig Chars	Age/ Qual	Hhold	Cohort FE	Mig Chars
Age	0.00792**	0.00885**	0.00885**	0.00825**	0.00813**	0.0113**	0.0113**	0.0108**
Age	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)
Age-Squared/ 100	-0.00736**	-0.00855**	-0.00855**	-0.00780**	-0.00799**	-0.0120**	-0.0120**	-0.0114**
Age-Squared/ 100	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)
Low School Quals	0.0604**	0.0541**	0.0541**	0.0526**	0.0851**	0.0815**	0.0815**	0.0796**
Low School Quals	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)
High School Quals	0.130**	0.119**	0.119**	0.116**	0.144**	0.138**	0.138**	0.136**
High School Quals	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)
Foreign School Qual	0.102**	0.0970**	0.0970**	0.0899**	0.115**	0.111**	0.111**	0.106**
Foreign School Qual	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Vocational Quals	0.0389**	0.0372**	0.0373**	0.0345**	0.0502**	0.0519**	0.0520**	0.0504**
Vocational Quals	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)
University Degree	0.190**	0.180**	0.180**	0.178**	0.157**	0.154**	0.154**	0.152**
University Degree	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)
Currently Married		0.0204**	0.0205**	0.0243**		0.001	0.001	0.005
Currently Married		(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)		(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Formerly Married		0.0108**	0.0108**	0.0107**		-0.004	-0.004	-0.005
Formerly Married		(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)		(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Couple with No Kids		0.0125**	0.0125**	0.00740*		0.0225**	0.0226**	0.0173**
Couple with No Kids		(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)		(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Couple with Children		0.003	0.003	0.001		0.001	0.002	-0.001
Couple with Children		(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)		(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Single Parent		-0.0239**	-0.0239**	-0.0235**		-0.0243**	-0.0243**	-0.0237**
Single Parent		(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)		(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Lives in Urban Area		0.0992**	0.0992**	0.101**		-0.003	-0.003	-0.002
Lives in Urban Area		(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)		(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)
Arrived 1958-1967			-0.015	-0.0290**			-0.001	-0.012
Arrived 1958-1967			(0.010)	(0.010)			(0.011)	(0.011)
Arrived 1968-1977			0.008	0.002			0.012	0.006
Arrived 1968-1977			(0.007)	(0.007)			(0.008)	(0.008)
Arrived 1978-1987			0.006	0.012			-0.004	0.000
Arrived 1978-1987			(0.007)	(0.007)			(0.008)	(0.008)
Arrived 1988-1997			0.0191*	0.0321**			0.002	0.014
Arrived 1988-1997			(0.009)	(0.009)			(0.010)	(0.010)
Arrived 1998-2007			0.007	0.0254*			0.014	0.0314*
Arrived 1998-2007			(0.011)	(0.011)			(0.012)	(0.012)
<18 at Arrival				0.0113**				0.0193**
<18 at Arrival				(0.003)				(0.003)
Born in the UK				0.0456**				0.0470**
Born in the UK				(0.003)				(0.004)
Born in Asia				-0.0310**				-0.0263**
Born in Asia				(0.005)				(0.005)
Born in Pacific Islands				-0.0586**				-0.0620**
Born in Pacific Islands				(0.004)				(0.004)
Born Elsewhere Not NZ				0.00907**				0.0137**
Born Elsewhere Not NZ				(0.003)				(0.004)
R-squared	0.26	0.30	0.30	0.31	0.22	0.23	0.23	0.24
Observations	74,261				67,511

Note: All regressions include survey year and years since migration fixed effects. Regional fixed effects are added in the second specification. All immigrant specific variables including the cohort fixed effects are estimated in deviation from mean form, eg each coefficient can be interpreted as the differences from the average migrant and sum to zero including the default group. ** significant at 1% level, * significant at 5% level.

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