Prepared by BERL
Adrian Slack, Jiani Wu and Dr Ganesh Nana

For the Department of Labour
August 2007

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Acknowledgments

The Department of Labour received generous assistance, information and feedback from many individuals and organisations. We particularly wish to recognise the input received from:

• the Economic Impacts of Immigration (EII) Steering Group
• Professor Jacques Poot, Professor of Population Economics, Waikato University
• Statistics New Zealand
• The Ministry of Social Development
• The Ministry of Education.

Contents

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Method
• Overseas and New Zealand-born Populations
• Study and the Migrant Population
• Occupation and the Migrant Population
• The Fiscal Impact
• The Fiscal Impact By Region of Residence
• Long-run Impacts of Immigration
• Concluding Comments
• Summary Tables 2006

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