Introduction: Analysis of LisNZ data to date has primarily explored skilled principal migrants and their settlement and labour market outcomes. However, the settlement of family members and the labour market outcomes of partners are equally as important to understand. The presence of family members alongside the principal migrant plays an important role in the settlement...

Purpose and key question: This report presents new statistics on the extent to which industry trainees leave and return to New Zealand. For New Zealand industry trainees who completed a qualification in either 2003 or 2004, it examines their migration patterns of the subsequent 7 years post-completion. We are interested in better understanding the extent...

This report provides a progress update on the New Zealand Government's action plan for tackling methamphetamine. Introduction Purpose This report provides a progress update on the Government's Tackling Methamphetamine: an Action Plan (the Action Plan). It specifically: records changes against the Action Plan's baseline data of 2008 or 2009, and details progress on the Action...

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...