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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups : evidence from Māori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2015

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 mobile than other ethnic groups because of attachment to particular … geographical locations. If this were the case, Māori may have been disadvantaged in the post-reform period because they were more …

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Identifying functional labour market areas in New Zealand : a reconnaissance study using travel-to-work data

Papps, Kerry L.; Newell, James O. - 2002

To date, analysis of the spatial dimension of New Zealand labour markets has been limited to administrative, rather than appropriately-defined functional, geographic units. This paper presents a preliminary classification of New Zealand into local labour market areas using area unit...

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Occupational attainment and earnings among immigrant groups : evidence from New Zealand

Maani, Sholeh A.; Dai, Mengyu; Inkson, Kerr - 2015

This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to...

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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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Did the post-1986 decline in the homeownership rate benefit the New Zealand labour market? : a spatial-econometric exploration

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques - 2019

The proportion of New Zealand households living in owner-occupied dwellings has declined steadily since the early 1990s. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due to the late 1990s Asian Financial Crisis and the Global Financial Crisis a decade later. Research...

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Educational mismatches and earnings in the New Zealand labor market

Yeo, Jian Z.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: New Zealand Economic Papers

Mismatch of educational skills in the labor market is an emerging topic in the field of labor economics, partly due to its link to labor productivity. This is the first application of this question to New Zealand data. In this paper we examine the incidence of educational mismatch and its...

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The long-term impacts of international migration : evidence from a lottery

Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2015

We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...

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You drink, you drive, you die? : the dynamics of youth risk taking in response to a change in the legal drinking age

Boes, Stefan; Stillman, Steven - 2017

This paper exploits the reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth risk taking. Using administrative data on the universe of road accidents over a fifteen year period spanning the law change, we undertake three complimentary analyses to...

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Tax progressivity and top incomes : evidence from tax reforms

Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...

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The effect of social networks on the economic outcomes of a disadvantaged group : evidence from tribal affiliations

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2017

focus on outcomes for Māori, which allows us to use tribes as exogenously formed networks, and traditional tribal ties to … endogenously formed networks and network locations. We find that Māori who locate in areas with strong networks have modestly worse … labour market outcomes than Māori from other tribes in the same areas. However, when we account for the endogenous selection …

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