Where do immigrants settle? Assessing the role of immigration policies

Alan Duncan, Mark Harris, Astghik Mavisakalyan () and Toan Nguyen

No WP1802, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Working Paper series from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School

Abstract: This paper compares immigration flows in response to changes in labour market conditions to provide an assessment of Australia’s selective immigration policies. We find employer sponsored immigration varied in line with changes in regional wages, with immigrants being drawn to states with greater wage grown. In contrast, evidence does not support this trend for points-based immigrants. We account for the endogeneity bias by exploiting differences in the impact of exogenous commodity price fluctuations on regional wages. A complimentary analysis of a points-based immigration policy reform in 2012 further highlights the role of employers in alleviating the apparent misallocation of points-based immigrants.

Keywords: skilled immigration; location choice; immigration policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 71 pages
Date: 2018-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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