Our migration research includes research, evaluation and monitoring of, immigration and settlement issues facing New Zealand in a globally competitive environment. The Labour and Immigration Research Centre provides strategic and tactical support for business operations and planning that underpins roll-out of immigration and settlement policies and programmes.

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Labour Market Outcomes for Immigrants and the New Zealand-born 1997-2009
This report examines how labour market outcomes and returns to human capital vary in the overseas-born and New Zealand-born populations in New Zealand and whether these returns vary over time and across business cycles.

Competing for Skills: Migration Policies and Trends in New Zealand and Australia
The aims of this study were to compare skilled migration policies in New Zealand and Australia, look at the labour market outcomes of skilled migrants, assess recent trends in skilled migration policy, and suggest implications of these policy developments for the future of skilled migration in the two countries.