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 …

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 …