Immigrant Generation and Income in Australia

Paul Miller and Barry Chiswick

The Economic Record, 1985, vol. 61, issue 2, 540-553

Abstract: Microdata for adult men from the 1981 Australian Census are used to study the determinants of income by immigrant generation. The overseas born, 30 per cent of adult males, have 5 per cent lower incomes than the native born, and ceteris paribus, 7 per cent lower incomes. Schooling and pre‐immigration labour market experience have smaller effects for the overseas born. Among the Australian born, those with overseas‐born parents have 4 per cent higher incomes overall, but, ceteris paribus, there is no difference. The means and partial effects of the explanatory variables among the native born are not related to the parents' nativity.

Date: 1985
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