Evaluating the contribution Last Publication Date: 01 May 2002 Social Work Now, Issue 31, pages 12-18. This paper reports on the first stage in the ongoing development of an evaluation framework which will provide a basis…
A focus on employment retention - A meta analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take-up and retain employment Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 The barriers associated with employment retention, for people moving off benefit and into paid work, are well documented in the New Zealand1 and international literature and are often…
Experience and suitability of job applicants: two policy issues from a survey of employers Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 A survey of Christchurch employers advertising job vacancies in January 2001 found that far more positions required experience in a similar job than required a specific…
An analysis of New Zealand's Business Demography Database Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 Longitudinal employer information for a linked employer-employee dataset in New Zealand will likely come from the business demography database maintained by Statistics New Zealand. The success…
A fous on employment retention: A meta analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take-up and retain employment Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 The barriers associated with employment retention, for people moving off benefit and into paid work, are well documented in the New Zealand and international literature and…
Change in the distribution of income of the working age population 1976-96 Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 Census data are used to analyse changes in the distribution of income among the working-age population (15 to 59 years) between 1976 and 1996. The income…
Pacific peoples and tertiary education: Issues of participation Last Publication Date: 25 Feb 2002 This research focused on the participation patterns of Pacific students in tertiary education and barriers to their participation. It has three parts: a literature review on…
Literature Review on Pacific Education Issues Last Publication Date: 31 Jan 2002 This Literature Review on Pasifika Education Issues was commissioned to provide valuable information about those issues for Pacific education which have been researched, and those which…
Medication Issues in counties Manukau Mental Health Services Last Publication Date: 31 Jan 2002 A 2001 study (Abas, Vanderpyl et al. 2001) identified medication problems as a major reason for admission into hospital. In response, this 2004 study examined stakeholder…
Commonsense, trust and science: How patterns of beliefs and attitudes to science pose challenges for effective communication Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 Report on an investigation into what the public thinks, knows, and feels about science. The research involved a telephone survey of 800 members of the New Zealand public, and small-scale…
