Callister & Associates
- economic and social research -
Paul Callister
As a New Zealand based economist, Paul Callister has over the last two decades undertaken research for a wide range of public and private sector organisations, addressing local, national, and cross-national issues.
Research interests
Paul's recent research has focused primarily around education and labour market issues. In relation to the labour market, Paul has had a long interest in the changing distribution of paid and unpaid work at the level of both the individual and the household. More recently he has investigated policy issues related to low skill migration.
In the area of education, Paul has focussed particularly on the gender dimensions of changes taking place in the education sector. He has also had a long interest in ethnicity, both as a variable within his research and methodological questions around the construction and measurement of ethnicity.
Non-research interests
Paul volunteers a day a week for the Ngauruora - Kapiti bush restoration project. This includes helping run a small tree nursery.
Clients and research funding
Current and past Foundation for Research, Science and Technology funded projects:
- Education, employment and missing men - 2007-2011;
- Work and Family Life in New Zealand and Outcomes for Children - 2001-2004;
- Families, work and education - 1994-1996;
- Families and patterns of work - 1993-1994; and
- Employment growth in the 1980s - 1992-93.
Current and past Emerging Issues funded projects:
New Zealand clients and funders have included:
- Bank of New Zealand
- BERL (Business and Economic Research Limited)
- BPI Systems - Videotext operators
- Brown, Copeland and Company
- Colenso Communications Ltd
- Department of Labour
- Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
- Housing New Zealand
- Iwi Transition Authority
- MDA Mckay King Advertising
- Ministry of Women's Affairs
- Ministry of Education
- Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs
- Ministry of Research, Science and Technology
- Ministry of Social Development
- Ministry of Works and Development
- National Business Review
- New Zealand Institute for Social Research and Development
- New Zealand Qualifications Authority
- Office of the Retirement Commissioner
- PA Management Consultants
- Statistics New Zealand
- Synergy Applied Research
- Tall Poppies
- Te Puni Kokiri
- The Careers Service
- Treasury
- Wellington College of Education
- Westpac Banking Corporation