Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205553 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
New Zealand Treasury Working Paper No. 04/13
Publisher: 
New Zealand Government, The Treasury, Wellington
Abstract: 
Many New Zealand-born people migrate overseas, creating a diaspora, and many overseas-born people migrate to New Zealand. Both the diaspora and the overseas-born population in New Zealand may facilitate the international exchange of goods and ideas. Much discussion of international linkages has, however, been limited by a lack of data on numbers of people involved. Based mainly on place-of-birth data from national censuses, this paper provides estimates of the size and structure of New Zealand's diaspora and overseas-born population, as well as comparisons with selected OECD countries such as Australia. A tentative conclusion is that the potential contribution of New Zealand's diaspora may have been overestimated, and the contribution of the overseas-born population underestimated.
Subjects: 
International migration
diaspora
measurement
New Zealand
Australia
population
emigration
immigration
JEL: 
F22
J19
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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