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Last week, Jacinda Ardern’s Labor Government tasked the New Zealand Productivity Commission (PC) with undertaking a system-wide review of the nation’s immigration program, with particular focus on the
“impact of immigration on the labour market, housing and associated infrastructure, and the natural environment”.
The goal of the inquiry is to
“enable New Zealand to strategically optimise its immigration settings” so that it maximises community wellbeing and living standards.
The Ardern Government is especially concerned with labour market outcomes arising from immigration:
The Commission should aim to provide concrete advice on how immigration affects labour market outcomes and the overall wellbeing of New Zealanders, including through productivity growth, the development of skills, levels of capital investment and labour market opportunities among different groups. It should
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Jacinda Ardern’s Labor Government has tasked the New Zealand Productivity Commission (PC) tom undertake a system-wide review of the nation’s immigration program, focusing on the
“impact of immigration on the labour market, housing and associated infrastructure, and the natural environment”.
The goal of the inquiry is to
“enable New Zealand to strategically optimise its immigration settings” so that it maximises community wellbeing and living standards.
The terms-of-reference notes that
“before the COVID pandemic more people were entering New Zealand’s labour market through permanent and long-term migration than from the school system” and wants the PC to examine among other things: