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The New Zealand Population: A Synopsis of Trends and Projections 1991-2016
Baxendine, Sandra; Cochrane, Bill; Dharmalingam, A.; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2005
population size and age structure, sub-national population size and change, international migration, ethnicity, families and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169980
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Demographic Change and Regional Competitiveness: The Effects of Immigration and Ageing
Poot, Jacques - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2007
The demographic profile of a region is usually seen as a slowly changing background phenomenon in the analysis of regional competitiveness and regional growth. However, regional demographic change can have a significant impact on regional competitiveness and such change is often more rapid and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635002
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A Stochastic Sub-national Population Projection Methodology with an Application to the Waikato Region of New Zealand
Cameron, Michael P.; Poot, Jacques - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2010
instability of migration as a component of population change. Unlike the standard cohort-component methodology, in which net … migration levels are projected, the key parameters of our stochastic methodology are age-gender-area specific net migration … by net migration. Generally, the identified and modelled uncertainty makes the traditional ‘mid range’ scenario of sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552403
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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256173
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256215
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The Fallacy of “Job Robbing”: A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on Employment
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds that the absorption capacity of host countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256304
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Migration Paradigm Shifts and Transformation of Migrant Communities: The Case of Dutch Kiwis
Poot, Jacques; Pas, Suzan van der - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
This paper explores the dynamics of Dutch community change in New Zealand since 1950. The Netherlands has been the largest source country of migrants from continental Europe to New Zealand, but by 2006 40 percent of the Netherlands born were aged 65 or older. We find that there are three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317944
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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317952
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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678681
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The Gravity Model of Migration: The Successful Comeback of an Ageing Superstar in Regional Science
Poot, Jacques; Alimi, Omoniyi; Cameron, Michael P.; … - 2016
most commonly‐used paradigm for understanding gross migration flows between regions. This model owes its success to …, firstly, its intuitive consistency with migration theories; secondly, ease of estimation in its simplest form; and, thirdly …, goodness of fit in most applications. While fitting gravity models of aggregate migration flows started taking backstage to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584644