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Is Infrastructure Productive? Evaluating the effects of specific infrastructure projects on firm productivity within New Zealand

Timmins, Jason - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2005

The paper investigates the feasibility of using a variant of the spatial equilibrium model to estimate the productivity effects of a specific infrastructure project in New Zealand. Policy makers are interested in the marginal effects of infrastructure investment on productivity and an evaluation...

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The Long-Run Impact of New Zealand's Structural Reform on Local Communities

Stillman, Steven; Velamuri, Malathi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2008

New Zealand underwent a period of comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms from 1984-93. In this paper, we use data from the 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2001 Censuses to examine the long-run impact that these reforms had on local communities. We analyse the adjustment process in 140 local labour...

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The Geographical Mobility of Maori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2005

This paper describes the geographical location and internal mobility of the Maori ethnic group in New Zealand between 1991 and 2001. It is often suggested that Maori are less mobile than other ethnic groups because of attachment to particular geographical locations. We compare the mobility of...

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Does Money Buy Me Love? Testing Alternative Measures of National Wellbeing

Grimes, Arthur; Oxley, les; Tarrant, Nicholas - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012

attractiveness. The objective indicator is net migration over a fifty year timespan, indicating people’s revealed preference (re … Zealand compares with other countries according to these measures. Based on models of spatial (dis)equilibrium and migration …, we present tests of the predictive power of alternative aggregate measures for international migration outcomes. We find …

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Adjustment in Local Labour and Housing Markets

Grimes, Arthur; Maré, David C.; Morten, Melanie - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2007

employment shocks. Migration is a major adjustment response at both a national and regional level. Nationally, a 1% positive …-specific employment shock raises the long-run regional share of employment by 0.5 percentage points, due entirely to in-migration. House …

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The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders

Stillman, Steven; Maré, David C. - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2007

migration on mobility using the 'areaanalysis' approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated, and …

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Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Mobility of Recent Migrants to New Zealand

Maré, David C.; Stillman, Steven; Morten, Melanie - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2007

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...

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Trans-Tasman Migration, Transnationalism and Economic Development in Australasia

Poot, Jacques - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2009

This paper focuses on migration between Australia and New Zealand, which has exhibited a strong, but cyclical, net … movement towards Australia since the late 1960s. A long-term historical perspective is taken. Trans-Tasman migration is also … compared with inter-island migration within New Zealand. It is argued that differential economic development, driven by forces …

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A New Zealand Urban Population Database

Grimes, Arthur; Tarrant, Nicholas - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2013

This paper documents a comprehensive database for the populations of 60 New Zealand towns and cities (henceforth “towns”). Populations are provided for every tenth year from 1926 through to 2006. New Zealand towns have experienced very different growth rates over this period. Economic...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of New Zealanders

Maré, David C; Stillman, Steven - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2009

This paper uses data from the 1996, 2001 and 2006 New Zealand Census to examine how the supply of immigrants in particular skill-groups affects the employment and wages of the New Zealand-born and of earlier migrants. We first estimate simple CES production functions that allow for...

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