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Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Mobility of Recent Migrants to New Zealand
Maré, David C. - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149242
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Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Mobility of Recent Migrants to New Zealand
Maré, David C.; Morten, Melanie; Stillman, Steven - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224108
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Housing Markets and Migration: Evidence from New Zealand
Stillman, Steven; Maré, David C. - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2008
New Zealand's large and volatile external migration flows generate significant year-to-year fluctuations in the demand for residential housing. This paper uses population data from the 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006 New Zealand Censuses, house sales price data from Quotable Value New Zealand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125070
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Housing markets and migration : evidence from New Zealand
Stillman, Steven (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003740373
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Homeownership, social capital and parental voice in schooling
Grimes, Arthur; Stillman, Steven; Young, Chris - 2011
homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the … associations between homeownership and state-ownership rates and outcome variables. Our findings show no discernible effect of … homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286880
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Homeownership, social capital and parental voice in schooling
Grimes, Arthur L.; Stillman, Steven; Young, Chris - 2011
homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the … associations between homeownership and state-ownership rates and outcome variables. Our findings show no discernible effect of … homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522491
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Homeownership, Social Capital and Parental Voice in Schooling
Grimes, Arthur - 2011
homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the … associations between homeownership and state-ownership rates and outcome variables. Our findings show no discernible effect of … homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117618
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Homeownership, Social Capital and Parental Voice in Schooling
Grimes, Arthur - 2011
We investigate the effects of homeownership on parents' involvement in local school elections. We use 2007 New Zealand … school board of trustees data to examine whether schools where parents have high rates of homeownership experience high … parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the probability that a school board …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118218
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The pot rush : is legalized marijuana a positive local amenity?
Zambiasi, Diego; Stillman, Steven - 2018
This paper examines the amenity value of legalized marijuana by analyzing the impact of marijuana legalization on migration to Colorado. Colorado is the pioneering state in this area having legalized medical marijuana in 2000 and recreational marijuana in 2012. We test whether potential migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814705
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Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195825