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References

Angrist, Joshua and Adriana Kugler. 2003. "Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect Immigration on EU Natives." Economic Journal 113 (June): F302-F331.," Economic Journal, 113 (June):F302, p. F331.

Borjas, George. 1987. "Immigrants, Minorities, and Labour Market Competition," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 40:3 (April 1987), pp. 382-92.

Borjas, George. 1994. "The Economics of Immigration," Journal of Economic Literature, 32:4, pp. 1667-717.

Borjas, George. 1999. "The Economic Analysis of Immigration" in Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3A, Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, Eds. North Holland, pp. 1697-760.

Borjas, George J. 2003. "The Labor Demand Curve Is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118:4, pp. 1335-74. Available online at http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~GBorjas/Papers/QJE2003.pdf.

Borjas, George J.; Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence Katz. 1996. "Searching for the Effect of Immigration on the Labor Market," American Economic Review, 86:2, pp. 246-51.

Borjas, George J.; Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz. 1997. "How Much Do Immigration and Trade Affect Labor Market Outcomes," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1997:1, pp. 1-90. Available online at http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~GBorjas/Papers/Immigration_and_Trade.pdf.

Boyd, Caroline. 2006. "Migrants in New Zealand: An Analysis of Labour Market Outcomes for Working Aged Migrants Using 1996 and 2001 Census Data," Department of Labour Report, New Zealand Department of Labour, Wellington. Available online at www.dol.govt.nz.

Card, David. 2001. "Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Market Impacts of Higher Immigration," Journal of Labor Economics, 19:1, pp. 22-64.

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit and M D. Paserman. 2006. "Mass Migration to Israel and Natives' Employment Transitions," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 59:4, pp. 630-52.

Diewert, Erwin. 1971. "An Application of the Shephard Duality Theorem: A Generalized Leontief Production Function," Journal of Political Economy, 79, pp. 481-507.

Evans, Lewis; Arthur Grimes; Bryce Wilkinson and with David Teece. 1996. "Economic Reform in New Zealand 1984-95: The Pursuit of Efficiency," Journal of Economic Literature, 34:4, pp. 1856-902.

Friedberg, Rachel H. and Jennifer Hunt. 1995. "The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment, and Growth," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9:2, pp. 23-44.

Hicks, John. 1970. "Elasticity of Substitution Again: Substitutes and Complements," Oxford Economic Papers, 22:3, pp. 289-96.

Islam, Asadul. 2009. "The Substitutability of Labor Between Immigrants and Natives in the Canadian Labor Market," Journal of Population Economics, 22, pp. 199-217.

Longhi, Simonetta; Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot. 2005. "A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Impact of Immigration on Wages," Journal of Economic Surveys, 19:3, pp. 451-77.

Longhi, Simonetta; Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot. 2008. "The Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Natives in Regional Labour Markets: A Meta-Analysis," In: Poot, J., Waldorf, B. and van Wissen, L. (eds) Migration and Human Capital: Regional and Global Perspectives. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham United Kingdom, pp. 173-194.

Manacorda, Marco; Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth. 2006. "The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence From Britain," IZA Discussion Paper, 2352. Available online at www.iza.org.

Maré, David C.; Melanie Morten and Steven Stillman. 2007. "Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Mobility of Recent Migrants to New Zealand," New Zealand Economic Papers, 41:2, pp. 163-96.

Maré, David C. and Wai Kin Choy. 2001. "Regional Labour Market Adjustment and the Movements of People: A Review," Treasury Working Paper 01/08, The Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand. Available online at http://www.treasury.govt.nz/workingpapers/2001/twp01-8.pdf.

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I P and Giovanni Peri. 2006. "Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages," NBER Working Paper 12497. Available online at www.nber.org/papers/w12497.

Papps, Kerry L. and James O. Newell. 2002. "Identifying Functional Labour Market Areas in New Zealand: A Reconnaissance Study Using Travel-to-Work Data," IZA Discussion Paper 443, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn. Available online at ftp://repec.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp443.pdf. Last accessed 30 June 2005.

Peri, Giovanni. 2007. "Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence From California," NBER Working Paper, 12956.

Poot, Jacques and Bill Cochrane. 2004. "Measuring the Economic Impact of Immigration: A Scoping Paper," report for the New Zealand Immigration Service Immigration Research Programme. Available online at www.dol.govt.nz.

Raphael, Steven and Lucas Ronconi. 2008. "Reconciling National and Regional Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on U.S. Labor Markets: The Confounding Effect of Native Male Incarceration Trends," University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper, 08-004.

Stillman, Steven and David C. Maré. 2007. "The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders," Motu Working Paper, 07-05.

Stock, James H. and M Yogo. 2002. "Testing for Weak Instruments in Linear IV Regression," NBER Technical Working Paper, 284.

Winkelmann, Liliana and Rainer Winkelmann. 1998. "Immigrants in the New Zealand Labour Market: a Cohort Analysis Using 1981, 1986 and 1996 Census Data," Labour Market Bulletin, 1998:1&2, pp. 34-70.