The impact of immigration on the geographic mobility of New Zealanders
Citation
Export citationMare, D.C. & Stillman, S. (2010). The impact of immigration on the geographic mobility of New Zealanders. Economic Record, 86(273), 247-259.
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Abstract
We use data from the New Zealand Census to examine how the arrival of new migrants affects the geographic mobility of the New Zealand (NZ)-born and earlier migrants. We identify the impact of recent migration by exploiting the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated, and therefore a change in the local supply of migrants in a particular skill-group should have an impact on the mobility of similarly skilled non-migrants in that local labour market. Overall, our results provide little support for the hypothesis that migrant inflows displace either the NZ-born or earlier migrants with similar skills in the areas that new migrants are settling.
Date
2010Type
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
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- Management Papers [1098]