migration

Why do so many choose to leave God’s Own?

16 Oct 17, 10:13am

Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy argues NZ is looking less like a developed nation and more like a pretender as well educated young people flock overseas
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Asians expected to make up 22% of this country's population by 2038

3 Oct 17, 11:53am

Greg Ninness

47 comments

Asian, Maori and Pacific people the fastest growing population groups in this country
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Net migration gains may finally have started heading downwards

2 Oct 17, 10:52am

Greg Ninness

24 comments

August could have been a turning point for migration-driven population growth
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Is the National Party the migrant party?

2 Oct 17, 6:02am

Jenée Tibshraeny

69 comments

Jenée Tibshraeny considers the extent to which the migrant vote has propped up National, particularly in Auckland's traditional Labour strongholds
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Why hasn't housing affordability been a bigger focus of this election campaign?

22 Sep 17, 12:16pm

Gareth Vaughan

99 comments

I thought this was going to be the housing election but housing affordability has struggled for airtime. Gareth Vaughan is very disappointed about this
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Migrant arrivals reach a record high of 132,153 in August year

21 Sep 17, 11:34am

Greg Ninness

88 comments

Record number of migrant arrivals sees a net migration gain of 72,072 in year to August
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Why we should stop using GDP to measure the success of migration policy

16 Sep 17, 6:02am

Jenée Tibshraeny

36 comments

Jenée Tibshraeny teases out an economic theory for why migration policy should be driven by well-being not GDP growth
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This week's guest Top 10

25 Aug 17, 10:02am

Mieke Welvaert

69 comments

Mieke Welvaert of Infometrics on the Top 10 things to know about migration
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Net migration gain hits another record of 72,402 in July year

21 Aug 17, 11:25am

Greg Ninness

62 comments

Net migration gains continue to break records driven by non-NZ citizens, as more New Zealanders leave the country than return home
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'Housing is not an immigrant problem'

19 Aug 17, 10:48am

Jenée Tibshraeny

72 comments

Massey's Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Paul Spoonley urges immigration service providers to help tell the good news story of migration's place in NZ
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'Rather alarming: Net migration is even higher than you thought'

16 Aug 17, 10:23am

David Hargreaves

43 comments

Economics consultancy and forecaster Infometrics says NZ's net migration may actually be more like 80,000 per year; says ideal should be between 10,500 and 16,600 - but that could take seven years to achieve
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NZ population up by almost 390k in just 5 years

14 Aug 17, 11:32am

Gareth Vaughan

109 comments

Net migration fuelled population growth takes NZ's resident population to 4.79 mln at June with biggest growth coming in 15-39 age group
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'Disingenuous to suggest NZ's top quartile OECD growth rate is a mark of success'

10 Aug 17, 4:38pm

Bernard Doyle

47 comments

JBWere's Bernard Doyle on NZ's productivity recession, population growth driving economic growth & advice for NZ sharemarket investors to reduce their holdings
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Picking your policies

9 Aug 17, 4:10pm

David Hargreaves

44 comments

David Hargreaves suggests the way the election is shaping up offers voters the ideal chance to 'cherry pick' various policies - particularly in areas of interest such as housing and immigration
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Rents are rising faster than wages in Auckland & Wellington but falling in Christchurch

9 Aug 17, 8:57am

Greg Ninness

64 comments

Aucklanders caught between high rent increases and low wage growth - high immigration likely to be a contributing factor
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This week's guest Top 10

4 Aug 17, 10:15am

Tom Coupe

24 comments

Tom Coupe on '10 things that amazed me during my first year living in New Zealand' including cold & damp houses, high prices, bare feet & more
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Govt tweaks migrant proposals

27 Jul 17, 1:22pm

David Hargreaves

74 comments

After complaints from employers the Government has backed down on original work visa proposals; has now lowered pay threshold to $41.5k from $48k; introduced new 'mid-skilled' category
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A kneejerk response to a kneejerk reaction to a kneejerk proposal

24 Jul 17, 1:38pm

David Hargreaves

103 comments

The Government's looming partial backdown on recently announced migration limits points to the folly of lazy policy formulated through opinion polls and public reaction
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The Kiwi component

22 Jul 17, 9:36am

David Chaston

21 comments

We extract the data of how Kiwi citizens move in and out of New Zealand compared with overall permanent migrant data, and look at these major flows in their longer term context, including by region
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