Despite its best efforts to become the next Silicon Valley, New Zealand has instead attracted a lot of nice people but very few trailblazers. A long succession of immigration policies tried to increase productivity and attract highly skilled migrants and entrepreneurs, but with very little effect, said NZIER associate Julie Fry. How much in-demand orchard workers really earnMARTIN DE RUYTER/STUFF RSE workers from Samoa: Jason Papali'i, left, Simanualii Ieremia, Leo Pene, Isumu Enele and Junior Tasala, at Cederman Brothers orchard near Nelson. A lot of ingredients were needed to create an ecosystem to sit alongside such high value migrants, she said. SUPPLIED New Zealand has a choice about what sort of immigration it allows when the borders re-open, says Julie Fry.

Source: Stuff November 29, 2020 11:07 UTC