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Immigrant Outcomes
Our immigrant outcomes research looks at settlement patterns for immigrants in New Zealand.
Some of these publications are drawn from the Pacific Island-New Zealand Migrant Survey. A more complete list of publications from this project is available at the project homepage, hosted by the University of Waikato.
- Stillman, Steven. 2011. "Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Subjective Well-Being," Australasian Labour Econometrics Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 13-14 August 2010, and Engelberg Labor Economics Workshop, University of Zurich, Engelberg, Switzerland, 12-14 January 2011.
- Grangier, Juliette, and Rob Hodgson. 2011. "Does the SMC Predict the Labour Market Outcomes of Skilled Migrants?" New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011. Available online from http://www.nzae.org.nz/conferences/2011/programme.html.
- Roskruge, Matthew, Arthur Grimes, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot. 2011. "Immigrant Integration and Social Capital Formation," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011. Available online from http://www.nzae.org.nz/conferences/2011/programme.html.
- Gibson, John, McKenzie, David, Stillman, Steven and Rohorua, Halahingano. 2010. European Society for Population Economics Annual Conference, Essen, Germany, June 2010, “Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension.”
- Mackenzie, David, Gibson, John and Stillman, Steven. 2010. Insights on Immigration and Development Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, June 2010, “A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?”
- Gibson, John, Mckenzie, David and Stillman, Steven. 2009. World Bank Migration and Development Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, September 2009, “Selectivity and the Estimated Impact of Emigration on Incomes and Poverty in Sending Areas: Evidence from the Samoan Quota Migration Lottery.”
- Stillman, Steven and David C. Maré. 2009. “Labour Market Outcomes for Immigrants in New Zealand” in Philip S. Morrison (ed.) Proceedings of the 2008 Joint Labour, Employment and Work and Australian Labour Market Research Workshop Conference. Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington: 133-46.
- Gibson, John; David McKenzie and Steven Stillman. 2011. "What Happens to Diet and Child Health When Migration Splits Households? Evidence From a Migration Lottery Program", Food Policy Special Issue: Migration and Food Security, 36:1, pp. 7-15.
- Stillman, Steven, and Malathi Velamuri. 2010. "Immigrant Selection and the Returns on Human Capital in New Zealand and Australia," IMSED Research Report, Department of Labour, Wellington.
- Poot, Jacques, and Steven Stillman. 2010. "The Importance of Heterogeneity when Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand," CReAM Discussion Paper 23/10, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, London.
- Gibson, John, Steven Stillman and David McKenzie. 2010. "Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension," BREAD Working Paper 284, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, Duke University, Durham, NC.
- Gibson, John, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman. 2010. "Information Flows and Migration: Recent Survey Evidence from the South Pacific," Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Special Issue: Labour Circulation and Acceptance: New Zealand and its Neighbours, 19:3, pp. 401-20.
- Stillman, Steven, and Malathi Velamuri. 2010. "Immigrant Selection and the Returns on Human Capital in New Zealand and Australia," Motu Research Update 19, pp. 1-2.
- McKenzie, David, John Gibson and Steven Stillman. 2010. “How Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration.” Journal of the European Economic Association (June) 8. no. 4: 913-45.
- Stillman, S & Maré, D C (2010) “The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders” Economic Record Published online http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp.541 (Feb 9 2010).
- Stillman, Steven and David C. Maré. 2009. "The Labour Market Adjustment of Immigrants in New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 09-10.
- 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. 163-196.
- McKenzie, David; John Gibson and Steven Stillman. 2007. "A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?" IZA Discussion Paper 2788 (May).
- Maré, David C.; Steven Stillman and Melanie Morten. 2007. "Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Mobility of Recent Migrants to New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 07-11.
- Stillman, Steven; David McKenzie, and John Gibson. 2006. “Migration and Mental Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” University of Waikato, Department of Economics Working Paper 4/06.
- McKenzie, David; John Gibson and Steven Stillman. 2006. "How Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration," Motu Working Paper 06-02.