The New Zealand Initiative this week made a case for why, when assessing immigration, it is important to count the benefits and not just the costs. Not surprisingly it was greeted with an intemperate response from NZ First leader Winston Peters, who railed at our finding that migrants are not stealing jobs from Kiwis. Read more
Six months ago, when we started scoping the Initiative’s immigration report, we had a very specific audience in mind: Winston Peters. Our aim was to assemble all the available research and have a fact-based conversation with New Zealand’s most prominent immigration sceptic. Read more
Misery loves company. My misery: Trying to find a half-way decent, reasonably priced flat within walking distance to work that will not cost me an arm and a leg, during the busiest month of the year. Read more
Every American election brings howls of outrage from supporters of the losing side. It’s pretty common to hear about all the people who will move to Canada, or to New Zealand, because of how awful the winning candidate is. Read more
Ahead of the launch of The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis, comedian and TV personality Guy Williams spent the day chatting to the report authors. In the first of a series of videos, Guy, and the report authors Jason Krupp and Dr Rachel Hodder discuss the report findings and myth-bust some of the fears that people have about immigration. Read more
Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, discusses our latest report, The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis, on Newstalk ZB with Leighton Smith.
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A sufficiently advanced incompetence in a president is indistinguishable from malice. Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order blocking legal American residents, who happen to have been born in a small set of Middle Eastern countries, from returning home. Read more
New Zealand is widely regarded as a unique place, renowned for its natural beauty, culture, economic freedom, and quality of life. Immigration has played an important part in achieving this outcome. Read more
Wellington (30 January 2017): New Zealand is benefitting from immigration a new report by The New Zealand Initiative says. It also found that the current immigration policy settings are broadly fit-for-purpose, but policymakers should be vigilant to ensure this remains the case. Read more
Dr Oliver Hartwich discusses our immigration report, The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis, on TV1 Breakfast, following the report launch.
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Research Fellow Jason Krupp discusses the Initiative's new report on immigration, The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis, and suggests that it is Kiwis - not foreigners - who are pushing up house prices in Auckland and other fast growing areas.
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Dr Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director at The New Zealand Initiative, discusses the findings from our latest report, The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis.
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Research Fellow Jason Krupp was interviewed for NewsHub's 6.00pm news bulletin to discuss our latest report, The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis. Jason Krupp is a co-author of this report, along with Dr Rachel Hodder. Read more
One News discusses our report, The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis, and speak to the Executive Director of Multicultural New Zealand, Tayo Agunlejika, who says this is welcome research.
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Dr Eric Crampton discusses the migrant levy, and the other recommendations, from our report, The New New Zealanders: Why migrants make good Kiwis, with Mike Hosking.
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