Acknowledgements

We thank Jacques Poot and Deborah Cobb-Clark for comments on the paper. We also thank James Newell for providing us with data and assistance in creating local labour market boundaries. Access to the data used in this study was provided by Statistics New Zealand under conditions designed to give effect to the security and confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act 1975. All non-regression results using Census data are subject to base three rounding in accordance with Statistics New Zealand’s release policy for census data. The project is funded by the Department of Labour’s Economic Impact of Immigration research programme and by Marsden Fund grant 05-MEP-002. Any views expressed are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not purport to represent those of the Department of Labour, Motu or Statistics New Zealand.

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