WP22/07: Settlement Trajectories of Former Refugees in New Zealand
Insights on income and employment, using administrative data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure
Designation
Working Paper 22/07
Proposed authors
Arezoo Malihi
Jay Marlowe
Barry Milne
Annie Chiang
Concept
The research questions we are focusing on are:
- What are the main sociodemographic characteristics of refugee subgroups residing in New Zealand over 22 years – arrivals from 1997 to 2020?
- Are there differences in access rates to housing and education among adult refugees?
- Are there differences among subgroups of refugees in self-rated English-speaking proficiency?
- What percentages of refugees have been in employment, and what percentages receiving benefits, over time?
- To what extent do employment rates and income integration vary among refugees that came to New Zealand by different routes?
- What factors contribute to refugees' income levels over time?
- Can we observe, over time, any "catching-up" or "falling-behind" effects for different subgroups of refugees, compared to a representative sample of the whole New Zealand population?
Data sources
We will use the following tables from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI):
- Immigration Data
- Social housing data
- Industry training education data
- Primary and secondary schools data
- Targeted training data
- Tertiary education data
- Working for Families (WFF) research dataset
- Tax data