New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and … meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance … economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that immigration has had small positive effects on per capita incomes and has …

removing barriers to external trade would bring substantial growth and employment gains by enhancing resource allocation in …

the share of employment subject to licensing (the extensive margin) and the strictness of regulation (the intensive margin …

productivity growth. Employment opportunities for low-skilled workers and disadvantaged groups tend to be particularly affected by …

businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …

&D spending. Tax wedge reduction leads to less employment gains when EPL is not very stringent. …

outcome variables – labour productivity, employment and wages. In a second step, an illustrative set of changes in trading … on sectoral employment, except for car and truck manufacturing, consistent with a high integration of the sector with …