The Relationship between Immigration to Australia and the Labour Market Outcomes of Australian‐Born Workers

Breunig, Robert; Deutscher, Nathan; To, Hang

doi:10.1111/1475-4932.12328

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“…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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confidence: 84%

Migrant Age Profiles and Long‐Run Living Standards in Australia

Parr

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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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Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 84%

Migrant Age Profiles and Long‐Run Living Standards in Australia

Parr

Guest²

2019

Australian Economic Review

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“…Another set of skill‐cell studies finds no detrimental impact of immigration on the wages and employment of competing native workers, for example, Breunig et al . () for Australia. For Germany, D'Amuri et al .…”

Section: Empirical Evidencementioning

confidence: 92%

“…The studies by Breunig et al . () for Australia; Winter‐Ebmer and Zweimüller () for Austria; Pischke and Velling () for Germany; Dustmann et al . () for Great Britain; Zorlu and Hartog () for the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom; and Basso and Peri () for the United States detect no negative or positive impact of immigration at the local level.…”

Section: Empirical Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Edo

2018

Journal of Economic Surveys

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The literature on the impact of immigration on the labor market is highly controversial. The aim of this paper is to review the existing literature and draw some general conclusions on how wages and employment respond to immigration. Economic studies indicate that the impact of immigration on the average wage and employment of native workers is null or slightly positive. However, because adjustments take time, the immediate labor market effects of unexpected (as opposed to expected) migration episodes can be detrimental. Immigration also can have distributional consequences. In particular, the skill composition of immigrants matters in determining their impact on native labor market outcomes. An inflow of immigrants will tend to reduce the wages of competing native workers (with skills similar to those of the migrants), and increase those of complementary workers (with skills that complement those of immigrants). By affecting the skill composition of the workforce, immigration can create winners and losers among native workers via changes in the wage structure.

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“…In the long run, the results indicated that immigration negatively affected the rate of unemployment of the host countries. Breunig, Deutscher, and To (2017) examined the effect of immigration on the labour market outcomes of Australian workers using the national labour market approach by dividing immigrants into educational groups and experience groups. Their main findings concluded that immigration flows into skill groups where wages and employment are high; however, there was no evidence that labour market outcomes for individuals born in Australia were negatively affected by immigration.…”

Section: Immigration and Unemploymentmentioning

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Does a change in immigration affect the unemployment rate in host countries? Evidence from Australia

AboElsoud

Qudah

Elish

2020

Journal of Applied Economics

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This study examines and evaluates the dynamic causality relationship between immigration, unemployment, wages and GDP per capita in host countries with a focus on Australia. Previous research has indicated that the economic impact of immigration is significant; nonetheless, its effect on the labour market being positive or negative is inconclusive. This study uses a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to examine the dynamic short-and long-run nexus between these variables in Australia over the period 1980-2016. The paper provides clear evidence to policy makers on the positive spillover effect of immigration policies developed by the Australian government.

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The Relationship between Immigration to Australia and the Labour Market Outcomes of Australian‐Born Workers

Cited by 32 publications

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Migrant Age Profiles and Long‐Run Living Standards in Australia

Migrant Age Profiles and Long‐Run Living Standards in Australia

The Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Does a change in immigration affect the unemployment rate in host countries? Evidence from Australia

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