Differences in occupation between ancestry subgroups of Asian birthplace groups in Australia

Alwis, Sheruni De; Parr, Nick

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“…Given the increasing presence of Asians in Australia, recent research has examined their integration by focusing on integration outcomes, including socioeconomic attainment, residential segregation, and civic and political participation (De Alwis and Parr 2018). Because immigration to Australia remains largely skills based, one might expect positive labor market and education outcomes for these immigrants.…”

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The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and the United States

Tran¹,

Guo²,

Huang³

2020

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Whereas Australia has pursued a skills-based migration policy, the United States has privileged family-based migration. The key contrast between these migration regimes provides a rare test of how national immigration policy shapes immigrant selection and integration. Does a skills-based immigration regime result in a more select group of Asian immigrants in Australia compared to their counterparts in the United States? Are Asian immigrants more integrated into their host society in Australia compared to the United States? Focusing on four groups of Asian immigrants in both countries (Chinese, Indians, Filipinos, and Vietnamese), this article addresses these questions using a transpacific comparison. Despite Australia’s skills-based immigration policy, we find that Asian immigrants in Australia are less hyper-selected than their counterparts in the United States. Asian immigrants in Australia also report worse labor market outcomes than those in the United States, with the exception of Vietnamese—a refugee group. Altogether, these findings challenge the conventional wisdom that skills-based immigration policy not only results in more selected immigrants, but also positively influences their integration into the host society.

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The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and the United States

Tran¹,

Guo²,

Huang³

2020

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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“…These low levels of representation among CEO&MDs are despite these groups having high levels of education. The underrepresentation of most of the Asian migrant groups among CEO&MDs is all the more striking in view of the ‘success’ of many of these groups in terms of finding employment in other high‐status occupations: most exhibit a higher average occupational status than the Australia‐born and have larger proportions employed in high‐status professional occupations, especially Business, human resource and marketing professionals, Health professionals and ICT professionals (Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ; De Alwis and Parr ; Massey and Parr ; McMillan, Beavis, and Jones ).…”

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The birthplaces, languages, ancestries and religions of chief executive officers and managing directors in Australia

Parr

Alwis

2018

Asia Pac J Human Res

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This paper provides detailed comparisons of the birthplace, language, ancestry and religious profiles of chief executive officers and managing directors (CEO&MDs) to those of the broader Australian workforce, using 2011 Australian census data, and assesses the extent to which these differences are attributable to the age profiles of these groups. The results show the percentages of migrants from English‐speaking and north‐west European countries, English, Dutch and German speakers, and people with British, Dutch or German ancestry among CEO&MDs are above the percentages of the wider national workforce these groups form. In contrast, migrants from most Asian countries are less prevalent among CEO&MDs than in the wider national workforce. Second and higher order generation southern Europeans are well represented among CEO&MDs, in contrast to the first generation. The patterns are linked to the historical sizes and selectivity of different migration flows, and may raise equal opportunity concerns.

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“…Also, our model assumes perfect substitution between immigrants (and their descendants) and existing Australian residents (and their descendants) of the same age, which is justified in view of their similar labour market outcomes in combination with the high percentage of the currently resident population of working age who are immigrants, and which can provide a basis for estimating a trade‐off between expected output per immigrant and immigrant age (Productivity Commission ; To, Grafton and Regan ; ABS ). This overall similarity of labour market outcomes occurs despite Australia's immigrants having higher levels of educational attainment than their Australian‐born counterparts of the same age, and also reflects immigrants' lower returns to education in terms of labour market outcomes (Kler ; Piracha, Tani and Vadean ; De Alwis and Parr ). Similarly, the model assumes neutrality of the effects of net immigration on employment rates of the Australian‐born, which is consistent with recent evidence (Productivity Commission ; Breunig, Deutscher and To ).…”

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Migrant Age Profiles and Long‐Run Living Standards in Australia

Parr

Guest²

2019

Australian Economic Review

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The age profile of immigration to Australia can be altered by public policies. This article applies a method of valuing long term population paths in order to evaluate alternative immigrant age profiles based on a proxy indicator of living standards over time for Australia. Results show that the variation in value of the population path follows an inverted U-shape by immigrant's age. The strength of preference between immigrants aged 20-29 years and older working age immigrants reduces as the social discount rate increases. Higher life expectancy and lower fertility accentuate preference for younger working age immigrants.

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Differences in occupation between ancestry subgroups of Asian birthplace groups in Australia

Abstract: Asia-born migrants form a majority of Australia's immi-

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and the United States

The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and the United States

The birthplaces, languages, ancestries and religions of chief executive officers and managing directors in Australia

Migrant Age Profiles and Long‐Run Living Standards in Australia

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