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Yes, completely – your paper was very clear on that, and the fact that the discussion was one of medium-long term issues not short-term cyclical policy. I had tried to word the post appropriately to capture the fact that Labour policy may have started life in that direction by saying “bears some relation” – but I can see how that makes it sound like the two are related (when they are not).
I will update the post to clarify. Cheers.
]]>Just to be clear, my paper that you linked to does not (at all) encourage consideration of trying to manage fluctuations in migration as a short-term counter-cyclical instrument. To the extent that the paper had policy implications, it encouraged consideration of a lower average level of inward migration of non-NZ citizens. My focus was on averages of the last decade or two, not on fluctuations from year to year (many of which are outside policy control, since they represent NZers coming/going in response to cyclical differences in the NZ and Australian labour markets).
Julie Fry’s recent Treasury working paper on immigration http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/research-policy/wp/2014/14-10 is also focused on the non-citizen programme over fairly extended periods.
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