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 …

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 …

differences between each migrant’s actual years of education and the estimated typical years of education in the narrowly defined … occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both …