This paper uses Statistics New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) over the six year period April 1999-March 2005 to derive and analyse estimates of two-way worker and firm fixed effects components of job earnings rates. The fixed effects estimates reflect the portable earnings...

This paper uses Statistics New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Database (LEED) to assess the extent and impact of such changes in the employment composition of workers and firms over this period. LEED provides comprehensive coverage of all wage and salary employment since 1999. It enables...

Changes to youth minimum wage legislation in New Zealand together with steady increases in minimum wages since 2001 have contributed to substantial increases in the minimum wages for teenage workers, and significant increases in the number of teen workers earning at or near minimum wages. With...

Matched employer-employee data research has found that workers’ wages are affected by the characteristics of the firms they work in, and that higher skilled workers tend to be employed by higher paying firms. This paper examines the contribution of workers’ job mobility to their wage...

In this paper, we exploit the worker-firm “link” information in the Linked Employer-Employee Database (LEED) to describe the patterns of employment intensity in jobs, matching between workers and firms, and the effect on job-level employment and earnings. First, we characterise workers’...