Immigration and the unemployment benefit programme in Australia

Asifa Nahid and Abul Shamsuddin ()

Applied Economics, 2001, vol. 33, issue 12, 1587-1597

Abstract: A widely held view is that immigrants contribute to public debt through their over representation in the unemployment benefit programme. An empirical investigation, based on the 1990 Income Distribution Survey, finds support for this view. In contrast to the US and Canadian studies, this paper observes that the probability of receiving unemployment benefits is higher for immigrants than the native-born population and immigrants, who participate in the unemployment benefit programme, also receive a greater amount of unemployment benefits.

Date: 2001
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