some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …

for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants’ arrival, and … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect … other hand, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. …

particular skill-groups affects the employment and wages of the New Zealand-born and of earlier migrants. We first estimate …, within skill-groups, migrants are perfect substitutes for non-migrants. We next estimate hierarchical CES production … patterns of wage impacts on different factors in response to changing factor shares, and that natives and migrants are not …

This paper uses data from the New Zealand Census to examine how the supply of recent migrants in particular skill … groups affects the geographic mobility of the New Zealand-born and earlier migrants. We identify the impact of recent … migration on mobility using the 'areaanalysis' approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated, and …

Twenty-three percent of New Zealand's population is foreign-born and forty percent of migrants have arrived in the past … ten years. Newly arriving migrants tend to settle in spatially concentrated areas and this is especially true in New … Zealand. This paper uses census data to examine the characteristics of local areas that attract new migrants and gauges the …