Philip S Morrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 293318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip S Morrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip S |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrison |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISON P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1448-9807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Are Life Satisfaction and WHO-5 Interchangeable Wellbeing Metrics
We examine whether subjective wellbeing outcomes can be compared across studies that use two alternative wellbeing metrics: life satisfaction (LS) and the World Health Organization’s WHO-5 index of mental wellbeing. If comparisons are meaningful, it would extend the use of wellbeing years (WELLBYs) to a wide range of health intervention evaluations. Using multiple surveys and multiple econometric approaches, we test whether a linear relationship …
Aversion to Local Wellbeing Inequality is Moderated by Social Engagement and Sense of Community
Human values, subjective well-being and the metropolitan region
Human values, subjective well-being and the metropolitan region. Regional Studies. Living in a country’s largest metropolitan centre has a negative effect on subjective well-being. Although documented in many developed economies, the reasons for this particular geography of well-being are still poorly understood. Meanwhile a separate body of research has shown that the holding of extrinsic or personally focused values is also associated with lowe…
Loss aversion and duration of residence
Studies of internal migration ask who moves, why they move, and what are the consequences - to themselves, their origin, and their destination. By contrast, studies of those who stay for very long durations are less common, despite the fact that most peopl
The post-move satisfaction of internal migrants
No description supplied
Socio-spatial Mobility and Residential Sorting: Evidence from a Large-scale Survey
This paper demonstrates that residential locations observed at one point in time influence socio-spatial mobility and hence neighbourhood outcomes arising from residential mobility. Using a unique survey of migration within New Zealand, it illustrates the classic result that repeated observations regress towards the mean. According to this statistical property, those leaving the most and least deprived areas are observed moving up and down toward…
Internal Migration and Employment: Macro Flows and Micro Motives
Empirical support for models of internal labour migration are usually based on observed patterns of net flows into local labour markets with relatively low unemployment and relatively high real wages. The inference drawn from such evidence is that internal migrants move to enhance returns to their labour. However, major surveys in the USA (Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the Current Population Survey), the UK (British Household Panel Survey) …
Local Expressions of Subjective Well-being: The New Zealand Experience
Morrison P. S. Local expressions of subjective well-being: the New Zealand experience, Regional Studies. Students of regional science have been preoccupied with economic drivers while at the same time implicitly assuming that increasing urban size and density raises local well-being. However, the geography of happiness may not mirror the geography of growth. Rather, there is a localization to the paradox of affluence mainly because raising popula…
Domestic responsibilities and the employment of young Māori women
While the employment rate of women has risen steadily in New Zealand over the last two decades, employment is still highly variable by ethnicity and age. One of the groups least engaged in paid employment is young Māori women (15–24 years). Their employment rates are much lower than their Pākehā counterparts (42 and 64%, respectively) and this is not offset by their greater involvement in education. Although there is a general awareness of these …
Teaching Exploratory Data Analysis
Symbolic Representation of Tabular Data
Promoting indigenous entrepreneurship through small‐scale contract farming: The poultry sector in Sarawak, Malaysia
Studies have consistently shown that in the relatively unregulated environments of the global economic periphery contract farming has led to highly regressive socioeconomic outcomes. Contract farming is not inherently regressive for the small farm sector however. In the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, contract farming is used as part of an affirmative action programme that trains indigenous smallholders in commercial poultry production. The public se…
Unemployment and Urban Labour Markets
Two quite distinct views on how metropolitan labour markets work have co-existed for over three decades. Both claim empirical support and, after a brief period of confrontation, they continue to co-exist today giving quite conflicting signals to policy-makers. According to the first model, the urban labour market consists of a number of spatially defined sub-markets so that local unemployment exists primarily because of deficiencies in highly loc…
Deregulation of the New Zealand labour market
Calling all viewpoints
Welfare reform and the intra-regional migration of beneficiaries in New Zealand
Employment
The 1990s began with unprecedented market conditions for labour: unemployment rates were reaching their highest level in over 50 years, participation in the labour market had fallen to historically low levels and net emigration was widespread across all occupations. It seemed that things could only get better. While some did benefit from the limited growth that took place in the nineties, many did not. The greater inequality generated during the …
The Inner-city Apartment versus the Suburb: Housing Sub-markets in a New Zealand City
This paper addresses a new phenomenon in New Zealand—the growing demand for residence within the central business district. The construction of inner-city apartments has seen a ready response by local authorities keen to rejuvenate a demand for downtown services, by developers facing a slow-down in suburban growth and by absentee owners as well as owner-occupiers seeking to broaden their residential portfolios. The paper argues that, although we …
Restructuring Effects of Deregulation: The Case of the New Zealand Taxi Industry
In most countries the taxi industry is highly regulated and in cases where deregulation has been attempted, positive outcomes have not always been evident. The taxi industry was one of the very last to be deregulated by the New Zealand government as part of its sweeping restructuring of the country's industry in the 1980s. The author looks at the impact of that 1989 Act. The 1989 legislation, which removed the quantitative controls (deregulation)…
The geography of rental housing and the restructuring of housing assistance in New Zealand
In 1993 major reforms to the delivery of housing assistance in New Zealand came into effect. These included the introduction of an Accommodation Supplement to provide income assistance for housing, the establishment of Housing New Zealand Limited to market former state houses and the setting up of the Ministry of Housing to provide policy advice. These reforms have replaced an explicitly spatial public policy based on the provision of housing sto…
Beyond Atoms and the Void
N CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, beginning a few centuries before the coming of the present era, there was a prominent school of philosophical thought-we would call it metaphysical today, I think-of great power. It has always been held by scientists as a prescient insight into what science would finally become. Its most famous compact exposition is in the fragments of the Greek philosopher Democritus, and we also have the much more extended poem from the R…
Segmentation theory applied to local, regional and spatial labour markets
Migrants, manufacturing and metropolitan labour markets in Australia
While the experience of migrants in the Australian labour market has received considerable attention, few researchers have asked how uniform this experience has been across the country's major metropolitan labour markets. This paper shows that migrants employed in the manufacturing sector exhibit noticeable differences in their relative access to jobs in different parts of the country. This evidence raises a number of questions about the appropri…
Mobility and Identity in the Island Pacific. (Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 26, Number 1 [April 1985].)
Nationalism, science, and individual responsibility
Local Expressions of Subjective Well-being: The New Zealand Experience
Morrison P. S. Local expressions of subjective well-being: the New Zealand experience, Regional Studies. Students of regional science have been preoccupied with economic drivers while at the same time implicitly assuming that increasing urban size and density raises local well-being. However, the geography of happiness may not mirror the geography of growth. Rather, there is a localization to the paradox of affluence mainly because raising popula…
Human values, subjective well-being and the metropolitan region
Human values, subjective well-being and the metropolitan region. Regional Studies. Living in a country’s largest metropolitan centre has a negative effect on subjective well-being. Although documented in many developed economies, the reasons for this particular geography of well-being are still poorly understood. Meanwhile a separate body of research has shown that the holding of extrinsic or personally focused values is also associated with lowe…
Loss aversion and duration of residence
Studies of internal migration ask who moves, why they move, and what are the consequences - to themselves, their origin, and their destination. By contrast, studies of those who stay for very long durations are less common, despite the fact that most peopl
Internal Migration and Employment: Macro Flows and Micro Motives
Empirical support for models of internal labour migration are usually based on observed patterns of net flows into local labour markets with relatively low unemployment and relatively high real wages. The inference drawn from such evidence is that internal migrants move to enhance returns to their labour. However, major surveys in the USA (Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the Current Population Survey), the UK (British Household Panel Survey) …
Socio-spatial Mobility and Residential Sorting: Evidence from a Large-scale Survey
This paper demonstrates that residential locations observed at one point in time influence socio-spatial mobility and hence neighbourhood outcomes arising from residential mobility. Using a unique survey of migration within New Zealand, it illustrates the classic result that repeated observations regress towards the mean. According to this statistical property, those leaving the most and least deprived areas are observed moving up and down toward…
Segmentation theory applied to local, regional and spatial labour markets
The geography of rental housing and the restructuring of housing assistance in New Zealand
In 1993 major reforms to the delivery of housing assistance in New Zealand came into effect. These included the introduction of an Accommodation Supplement to provide income assistance for housing, the establishment of Housing New Zealand Limited to market former state houses and the setting up of the Ministry of Housing to provide policy advice. These reforms have replaced an explicitly spatial public policy based on the provision of housing sto…
Unemployment and Urban Labour Markets
Two quite distinct views on how metropolitan labour markets work have co-existed for over three decades. Both claim empirical support and, after a brief period of confrontation, they continue to co-exist today giving quite conflicting signals to policy-makers. According to the first model, the urban labour market consists of a number of spatially defined sub-markets so that local unemployment exists primarily because of deficiencies in highly loc…
The Inner-city Apartment versus the Suburb: Housing Sub-markets in a New Zealand City
This paper addresses a new phenomenon in New Zealand—the growing demand for residence within the central business district. The construction of inner-city apartments has seen a ready response by local authorities keen to rejuvenate a demand for downtown services, by developers facing a slow-down in suburban growth and by absentee owners as well as owner-occupiers seeking to broaden their residential portfolios. The paper argues that, although we …
Aversion to Local Wellbeing Inequality is Moderated by Social Engagement and Sense of Community
Welfare reform and the intra-regional migration of beneficiaries in New Zealand
The post-move satisfaction of internal migrants
No description supplied
Migrants, manufacturing and metropolitan labour markets in Australia
While the experience of migrants in the Australian labour market has received considerable attention, few researchers have asked how uniform this experience has been across the country's major metropolitan labour markets. This paper shows that migrants employed in the manufacturing sector exhibit noticeable differences in their relative access to jobs in different parts of the country. This evidence raises a number of questions about the appropri…
Teaching Exploratory Data Analysis
Calling all viewpoints
The World of Science: Towards the Synthesis of Life
This is the first of an indefinite series of pieces on topics drawn from the natural sciences. Since they will have one author, and will be diverse in topic if unified in viewpoint, they will add up to a kind of "science column" for Monthly Review. It is my intention to make them long enough to convey the nature of the arguments and accurate enough to be reliable, but they will be neither monographs nor archival documents.This article can also be…
The World of Science: Science and Economic Development: A Review
Review of Science and Economic Development: New Patterns of Living by Richard L. Meier.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The World Of Science: Spider Webs, Drugs, and the Nature of Man
That humans were but one of a great chain of beings, stretching from the lowliest animalcule to the glorious invisible order of the angels, was an idea extended from Aristotle, not foreign even to the philosopher Locke. The material kernel of this notion became the content of Darwin's assault upon the confines of the Victorian mind. Nowadays the kinship of human and animal nature is commonplace, marked daily in medical practice by the purposeful …
World of Science: You Still Don't Know What Electricity Is, Anyway
There is a wry recollection which every physicist shares. Some conversation on the problems or the successes of physics is terminated by the banal phrase of the title above. That an elementary but contemporary account of the physicist's concept of electricity would be useful was suggested by an explicit question of one of the editors of Monthly Review. He put the question without the complacency of the usual conversationalist, but he made it clea…
The World of Science: Automation
Review of Automation: What It Is, How It Works, Who Can Use It by Karl Dreher.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The World of Science: The Sputniki
Sputnik z'eml'i—fellow-traveler of the earth: there is a new meaning to the words, a new sense transcending the wry political overtones of the anglicized phrase. Twice now, probably from the low steppe east of Stalingrad and the great Volga bend, Soviet rocketeers have launched an artifact into the very heavens. The date of October 4th, 1957, and then of November 3rd, will remain in history.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review web…
The Innovation Industry
Economists, both orthodox and Marxian, have traditionally viewed the rise of novelty in the forces of production as one social consequence of the economic nature of society, to be regarded as a diffuse but general condition of economic life, and not as the deliberate product of a particular industry. It is hard to doubt that this causal relationship still holds. Perhaps in Veblen, with his concern for the "state of the industrial arts," one can f…
The World of Science: The Immensity of Space: a Note on the Interpenetration of Theory and Experiment
The dimensions of the universe plainly need impose no terror on the reflecting mind, and yet it is wrong to ignore them in the construction of any view of reality. Even in the preoccupied and commercially minded newspapers of the day, new and contested results in cosmography appear as matters worth large front-page headlines. In this note I should like to set out the history of our knowledge of what Pascal called the "immensity of space," of the …
The World of Science: The Chalk and Its Boulders
We are glad to welcome Professor Morrison's column back to the pages of MR. He spent a year, from the summer of 1959 to the summer of 1960, attending conferences, lecturing and sightseeing in Europe and Asia. The following impressions and reflections he thought particularly appropriate to share with MR readers. —The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to …
The World of Science: Plenty of Room at the Bottom
Almost three years ago, Richard Feynman, perhaps the most original of contemporary theoretical physicists, so entitled, in his usual raffish vein, an after-dinner talk to the American Physical Society. He then made a curious and ingratiating personal offer: a thousand dollars to the maker of the first working electric motor brought to him which, without its lead-in wires, would occupy no more than a cube one sixty-fourth of an inch on edge. Stop …
Open or Closed?
Nationalism, science, and individual responsibility
Mobility and Identity in the Island Pacific. (Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 26, Number 1 [April 1985].)
Segmentation theory applied to local, regional and spatial labour markets
Migrants, manufacturing and metropolitan labour markets in Australia
While the experience of migrants in the Australian labour market has received considerable attention, few researchers have asked how uniform this experience has been across the country's major metropolitan labour markets. This paper shows that migrants employed in the manufacturing sector exhibit noticeable differences in their relative access to jobs in different parts of the country. This evidence raises a number of questions about the appropri…
Beyond Atoms and the Void
N CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, beginning a few centuries before the coming of the present era, there was a prominent school of philosophical thought-we would call it metaphysical today, I think-of great power. It has always been held by scientists as a prescient insight into what science would finally become. Its most famous compact exposition is in the fragments of the Greek philosopher Democritus, and we also have the much more extended poem from the R…
The geography of rental housing and the restructuring of housing assistance in New Zealand
In 1993 major reforms to the delivery of housing assistance in New Zealand came into effect. These included the introduction of an Accommodation Supplement to provide income assistance for housing, the establishment of Housing New Zealand Limited to market former state houses and the setting up of the Ministry of Housing to provide policy advice. These reforms have replaced an explicitly spatial public policy based on the provision of housing sto…
Restructuring Effects of Deregulation: The Case of the New Zealand Taxi Industry
In most countries the taxi industry is highly regulated and in cases where deregulation has been attempted, positive outcomes have not always been evident. The taxi industry was one of the very last to be deregulated by the New Zealand government as part of its sweeping restructuring of the country's industry in the 1980s. The author looks at the impact of that 1989 Act. The 1989 legislation, which removed the quantitative controls (deregulation)…
The Inner-city Apartment versus the Suburb: Housing Sub-markets in a New Zealand City
This paper addresses a new phenomenon in New Zealand—the growing demand for residence within the central business district. The construction of inner-city apartments has seen a ready response by local authorities keen to rejuvenate a demand for downtown services, by developers facing a slow-down in suburban growth and by absentee owners as well as owner-occupiers seeking to broaden their residential portfolios. The paper argues that, although we …
Employment
The 1990s began with unprecedented market conditions for labour: unemployment rates were reaching their highest level in over 50 years, participation in the labour market had fallen to historically low levels and net emigration was widespread across all occupations. It seemed that things could only get better. While some did benefit from the limited growth that took place in the nineties, many did not. The greater inequality generated during the …
Welfare reform and the intra-regional migration of beneficiaries in New Zealand
Calling all viewpoints
Deregulation of the New Zealand labour market
Unemployment and Urban Labour Markets
Two quite distinct views on how metropolitan labour markets work have co-existed for over three decades. Both claim empirical support and, after a brief period of confrontation, they continue to co-exist today giving quite conflicting signals to policy-makers. According to the first model, the urban labour market consists of a number of spatially defined sub-markets so that local unemployment exists primarily because of deficiencies in highly loc…
Promoting indigenous entrepreneurship through small‐scale contract farming: The poultry sector in Sarawak, Malaysia
Studies have consistently shown that in the relatively unregulated environments of the global economic periphery contract farming has led to highly regressive socioeconomic outcomes. Contract farming is not inherently regressive for the small farm sector however. In the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, contract farming is used as part of an affirmative action programme that trains indigenous smallholders in commercial poultry production. The public se…
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