Investigating a Wage Curve for New Zealand

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• This paper is based on research that was undertaken for a Master of Commerce and Administration thesis at Victoria University of Wellington. In this respect, the author would like to acknowledge the invaluable contributions that were made by Associate Professors Jacques Poot and Philip Morrison. Useful comments on the current paper were also made by Sylvia Dixon and by an anonymous referee. The author was awarded the 2001 A.R. Bergstrom Prize in Econometrics for this paper.
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