Client: Department of Labour

Date: February 2008

Authors: Dr Ganesh Nana, Kel Sanderson

This project aims to identify the labour market outcomes of migrant groups to New Zealand. It also investigates whether differences in such outcomes can be explained by differing characteristics of the various migrant groups.

We investigate the relationships between basic labour market characteristics and basic labour market outcomes, and the differences between the migrant types in terms of these characteristics and outcomes over time. Information from migrant arrival cards, as well as detailed cross-section data from the 1981, 1996, 2001 and 2006 censuses are used.

BERL ref #4501