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Population & labour
Population economics refers to research on individuals, families, households, and communities. Labour economics focuses on the world of work and covers people as workers as well as how firms behave in their role as employers.
This area includes research on education, inequality, community functioning, population growth and decline, population ageing, population diversity, and migration.
Our research focus
Motu’s current and recent research focus includes:
- Examining the pathways that students follow from school to life.
- Whether immigrants’ lives improve after they arrive in NZ.
- Impacts of immigration (and workforce composition more generally) on firm performance; and on non-immigrants.
- Why people move within New Zealand.
- How economic downturns and recoveries affect the labour market experiences of workers and firms.
- How knowledge flows between firms.
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The settlement experience of Pacific migrants in New Zealand: Insights from LISNZ and the IDI
2019. Isabelle Sin, Judd Ormsby
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What drives the gender wage gap? Examining the roles of sorting, productivity differences, and discrimination.
2017. Isabelle Sin, Richard Fabling, Steven Stillman
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The Longer Term Impacts of Job Displacement on Labour Market Outcomes
2017. Dean Hyslop, Wilbur Townsend
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Motu is affiliated with the University of Waikato’s National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis (NIDEA).
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