Seasonal employment patterns in the horticultural industry Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 The study uses Linked-Employer-Employee Data (LEED) to examine short-term and seasonal employment patterns within the New Zealand horticulture industry. The study is a first attempt at…
Job Mobility and Wage Dynamics Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2009 Matched employer-employee data research has found that workers’ wages are affected by the characteristics of the firms they work in, and that higher skilled workers tend…
Who hires older workers? A first look at industry variations in the recruitment of mature workers Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2009 This research note is concerned with age structure variations in firms’ hiring patterns. It uses data from the Linked Employer-Employee Dataset (LEED) to document variations in…
Key Findings on New Zealand's Progress Using a Sustainable Development Approach Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2009 The focus of Statistics New Zealand’s 2009 report Measuring New Zealand’s Progress Using a Sustainable Development Approach: 2008 was to answer the question ‘How is New…
Degrees of Separation in the New Zealand Workforce: Evidence from linked employer-employee data Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2008 The idea that the world is a small place has been around for a long time. In the 1960’s the psychologist Stanley Milgram, who is perhaps…
Measuring Job Tenure Using Linked Employer-Employee Data Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2008 The publication of job tenure statistics from Statistics New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Dataset (LEED) in 2006 provided the first comprehensive source of information in this area…
Labour Market Adjustment in the Construction Industry, 2001–2006 Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2008 The construction industry experienced heightened activity from 2001 to 2006 concurrent with low interest rates, high population growth, strong wage and job growth, and property investments…
Work Patterns after Paid Parental Leave Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2008 This paper uses longitudinal data from the Linked Employer-Employee Dataset to describe the employment and earnings patterns of people who first received paid parental leave between…
Transitions from work to retirement Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2008 Survey responses indicate that the majority of working-aged New Zealanders would prefer to make a gradual transition from work to retirement, rather than move abruptly from…
Developing the prototype Longitudinal Business Database Last Publication Date: 16 Oct 2008 This paper describes Statistics New Zealand’s development of the prototype Longitudinal Business Database (LBD). The LBD is the result of a two-year feasibility study to integrate…