Exchange Rate Fluctuations and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes: New Evidence from Australian Household Panel Data

Ha Nguyen and Alan Duncan

No WP1503, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Working Paper series from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School

Abstract: We present new and robust evidence that, unlike immigrants in the US, those in Australia as a whole do not reduce their yearly labour market utcomes when the local currency appreciates. While female immigrants don’t adjust their actual labour activities, they do desire to work more when the Australian dollar appreciates. By contrast, male immigrants reduce their weekly work intensity by participating less in full-time employment in response to an Australian dollar appreciation. We also present significant and heterogeneous impacts of exchange rates by gender and socio-economic backgrounds of immigrants and labour market outcomes.

Keywords: Exchange rate; Labour supply; Immigrants; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 J22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2015-03
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