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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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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575135
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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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Miserable migrants? Natural experiment evidence on international migration and objective and subjective well-being
Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; … - 2012
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289967
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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
the education distribution between immigrants and the native born. Using data for New Zealand, which has an immigration …, overqualified for their occupation. However, once we account for the fact that immigrants are on average more skilled than natives …, we find that immigrants are, in fact, less overeducated than natives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725525
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The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders
Stillman, Steven; Maré, David Christopher - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007
migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated … unlikely that internal mobility moderates any potential impacts of immigration on labour or housing markets in New Zealand. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967954
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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of New Zealanders
Maré, David C; Stillman, Steven - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2009
patterns of wage impacts on different factors in response to changing factor shares, and that natives and migrants are not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502083
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The Labour Market Adjustment of Immigrants in New Zealand
Stillman, Steven; Maré, David C - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2009
This paper uses data from the 1997–2007 New Zealand Income Survey to examine the economic performance of immigrants in New Zealand. Specifically, we use a synthetic cohort approach to examine how employment rates, hourly wages, annual income and occupations for immigrants compare to those for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502088
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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