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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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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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Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders
Daldy, Bridget; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688396
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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 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/10010274604
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International Migration and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas
Alimi, Omoniyi; Maré, David C.; Poot, Jacques - 2018
Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led to the foreign-born accounting for a growing share of the population; this is disproportionally so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984519
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Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders
Daldy, Bridget M.; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2013
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319428
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Skill composition of immigration flows and the measurement of education-occupation mismatch
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-28
Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual's education to the 'average' education in their occupation. We show that these results are sensitive to differences in the education distribution between immigrants and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725525