Preface

Abstract

This thirteenth conference in the series was held in December 2008 at Rutherford House on the Pipitea Campus of Victoria University of Wellington. After nearly 25 years of LEW conferences focused solely on New Zealand issues we decided to combine our thirteenth meeting with the Australian Labour Market Research Workshop (ALMRW). The resulting joint conference was the largest in the LEW series attracting papers from academics and graduate students from the major universities throughout Australiasia, many of the most prominent research organisations and an impressive number of staff within government departments.