Do Migrants get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia

Stephane Mahuteau () and Pramod (Raja) Junankar

No 150, Econometric Society 2004 Australasian Meetings from Econometric Society

Abstract: This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that studied the labour market status of migrants (probabilities of employment, or unemployment, or participation) this paper focuses on the quality of job that the migrant obtains on arrival in Australia. We provide alternative definitions of what is a good job in terms of objective and subjective criteria, and a combination of subjective and objective criteria. The paper uses two sets of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia data: the first cohort that arrived in 1993-95 and the second cohort that arrived in 1999-2000. In particular we would study how changes in social security legislation in 1997, (two year waiting period for eligibility for benefits) affected the quality of job held by new migrants. In comparing the behaviour of migrants in the labour market with and without access to social security benefits we would study whether migrants are more likely to accept bad jobs after the legislative changes. The paper uses bivariate probit models to estimate the probabilities of accepting a good job in terms of the usual human capital and demographic variables (including the visa category for entry into Australia), and business cycle variables to control for differential aggregate demand effects

Keywords: Immigrants; Immigration Policies; Job Satisfaction; Good Jobs; Labour Market Outcomes; Bivariate Probit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 J61 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-08-11
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