Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Abstract

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Labour Market Inequality in Australia

“…For income among full-time employees, interval regressions were employed as income is reported in broad categories in the Australian Censuses. Antecol et al (2003Antecol et al ( , 2006, Chiswick et al (2008) and Clarke and Skuterud (2013) compare immigrant outcomes in Australia with outcomes in Canada and the USA. Generally immigrants to Australia have better labour market outcomes than in these other countries, but this difference is driven by Australia's strategic immigrant intake based on skills and English language proficiency.…”

Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants’ Economic and Social Integration Differentially?

“…Social and economic integration and the promotion of social cohesion among immigrants remain the ultimate pillars of immigration policies in many host countries around the world. Previous studies have demonstrated that a good command of the language of the host country is important in accentuating the adaptation of immigrants both economically and socially, and in promoting their belonging to and engagement in the society in general (Borjas, 1990;Chiswick & Miller, 1995;Dustmann & Van Soest, 2001;Antecol et al, 2003;Bleakley & Chin, 2004;Bleakley & Chin, 2010). Recent studies have also documented that the linguistic distance between the language spoken in the sending and receiving countries strongly affects the international migration flows as well as the language acquisition in the host country (Chiswick & Miller, 2005;Belot & Ederveen, 2012;Isphording & Otten, 2014;Adsera & Pytlikova, 2015).…”

The Immigrant Wage Gap and Assimilation in Australia: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter?

“…A small number of individuals 4 in our panel sample acquired greater amounts of education with time. In these cases, we assign an education level to them based on an average of their education level during the 2 Cobb-Clark and Connolly (1997), Antecol et al (2003), Richardson and Lester (2004) and Antecol et al (2006) discuss similarities and differences in the Australian, US and Canadian experiences and policy frameworks. 3 Our substantive results are not influenced by this exclusion based on working hours, which affects less than one per cent of the sample.…”