New Zealand Economic Papers articles from December 2007

New Zealand Economic Papers archives from December 2007

Editor's introduction.
December 1, 2007... Kia Ora. Regular readers of the journal will immediately notice a number of changes. First of all, we have a newly appointed Board of Editors. Joining this editorial board are a number of renowned economists including Vincent Crawford of the...

Donald T Brash--Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
December 1, 2007... There can only be the barest handful of New Zealand economists who have had a career that is both as distinguished and varied as that of Don Brash. His career has spanned that of a research economist, an international bureaucrat, an orchardist,...

John D. Gould--Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
December 1, 2007... John Gould brought a new professionalism to the study and promotion of economic history in New Zealand. The New Zealand university economics curriculum had long had a component of economic history, and New Zealand economists in the first half...

Bruce Ross--Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
December 1, 2007... The New Zealand Association of Economists is delighted to honour the many distinguished contributions made by Professor Bruce Jerome Ross, CNZM, over his long career as a research economist, policy advisor and chief executive. ...

Pushing the boundaries of immigration research: what can we learn from New Zealand?(Symposium: Microeconomic Analyses of Migration into New Zealand)
December 1, 2007... 1. Introduction For almost thirty years, economists have been concerned with measuring the rate of economic assimilation amongst different immigrant groups. Economic assimilation has come to mean the closure over time of any earnings gap...

What explains the wealth gap between immigrants and the New Zealand born? *.(Symposium: Microeconomic Analyses of Migration into New Zealand)(Table)
December 1, 2007... 1. Introduction New Zealand has a large foreign-born population with almost one quarter of residents born abroad. In other countries, immigrants are often found to have less wealth and to hold it in different forms than the native born...

Settlement patterns and the geographic mobility of recent migrants to New Zealand *.(Symposium: Microeconomic Analyses of Migration into New Zealand)(Table)
December 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Twenty-three percent of New Zealand's population is foreign-born and forty percent of migrants have arrived in the past ten years. Newly arriving migrants tend to settle in spatially concentrated areas and this is...

Safe as houses: investor confidence in New Zealand *.(Table)
December 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Recent years have seen a boom in housing prices in many industrialised countries (e.g. Campbell, Davis, Gallin and Morris, 2006). New Zealand has been no exception. There has been increased investment in New Zealand...

Trans-Tasman shocks: a mediating role for the NZDAUD *.(New Zealand dollar / Australian dollar )
December 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Several studies have examined aspects of trans-Tasman currency union. A recent review (Hunt, 2005) updates "the ongoing debate as to whether New Zealand should enter into a currency union with Australia" concluding that...

KiwiSaver and the tax treatment of retirement saving in NZ.(Policy Watch)
December 1, 2007... 1. Introduction For nearly twenty years, New Zealand adhered to the principle of tax neutrality for private saving. Tax concessions for retirement saving had been removed between 1988 and 1990, along with other wide ranging reforms to the...