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Parental Leave - A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" Reform

Ekberg, John; Eriksson, Rickard; Friebel, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Many countries are trying to incentivize fathers to increase their share in parental leave and in household work to improve female labor market opportunities. Our unique data set stems from a natural experiment in Sweden. The data comprises all children born before (control group) and after the...

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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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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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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

Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...

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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

Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...

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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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Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes

Lundberg, Shelly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears …

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