IMF Staff Country Reports

New Zealand: Selected Issues

May 5, 2005

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the effect of international migration on unemployment in New Zealand. The empirical results in this paper suggest that net migration inflows give rise to a fall in the unemployment rate. The paper estimates a system of equations including the unemployment rate, real wage, net migration rate, and labor force participation rate, taking into account the interdependence of the variables. It also examines the impact of exchange rate volatility on export firms’ decisions to hedge foreign exchange exposure.

Subject: Aging, Consumption, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Labor, Migration, National accounts, Population and demographics

Keywords: Aging, Australia and New Zealand, Boosting productivity, Consumer spending, Consumption, CR, Exchange rates, Household debt, Interest rate, ISCR, Migration, Migration inflow, OECD labor market data, OECD labor market Data., OECD standard, Productivity

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    48

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/153

  • Stock No:

    1NZLEA2005002

  • ISBN:

    9781451830309

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685