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Making it Work: The Mixed Embeddedness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Zealand

Cain, Trudie; Spoonley, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In seeking economic immigrants, especially those who are skilled, entrepreneurial and with capital to invest, a settler country such as New Zealand has assumed that national and city labour markets/economies will gain by adding to the human capital pool as well as creating new 'economic'...

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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Does Changing the Legal Drinking Age Influence Youth Behaviour?

Boes, Stefan; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the impact of a reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 on alcohol use, and alcohol-related hospitalisations and vehicular accidents among teenagers. We use both a difference-in-differences approach and a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to...

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Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders

Daldy, Bridget; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-reported workplace discrimination is found amongst migrants from Asia and the Pacific Islands. Discrimination is more likely to be …

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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand

Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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 …

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Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...

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Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings

Crichton, Sarah; Stillman, Steven; Hyslop, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information...

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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market

Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible...

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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...

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The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants

Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

alcohol problems than men who stayed. For women, we again see a higher incidence of alcohol problems for short-term migrants …. However, long-term female migrants are less likely to have suffered from alcohol problems. …

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