Temporary migrants represent a growing source of employment in some sectors of the New Zealand labour market, particularly in agriculture and hospitality related industries. This research finds that temporary migration had a positive impact on the labour market outcomes of New Zealanders overall and was estimated to have no impact on the number of beneficiaries...

Purpose This report presents forecasts to 2015 for labour supply, working age population and labour force participation rates. The report describes the methodology and the conceptual framework for the forecasting process. These are designed to enable annual updates. The forecast methodology is new, because: (i) it has a high level of detail comprising 86 combinations...

Purpose This report summarises key indicators of migration trends for the 2012/13 financial year (1 July 2012 through 30 June 2013). The report focuses on three areas: Migration flows New Zealand Residence Programme (NZRP) Temporary visa entry and includes information from the Department of Statistics and comparative international information from the OECD. All New Zealand...

The purpose of this document is to summarise the consultation process undertaken by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) during its review of earthquake-prone building policy. The document includes a summary of: the regional public information seminars submissions in response to: the proposals put forward by the MBIE to review New Zealand’s earthquake-prone...

The Information and Communications Technology Report takes an in-depth look into how New Zealand’s ICT sector is performing. It focuses particularly on the information technology services sub-sector, which has achieved export growth of 10 per cent per annum since 2002. A number of themes in the ICT sector are highlighted, including: rising investment in the...