Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as Well as the Native-born?

Asad Islam, Steven Stillman and Christopher Worswick

No 10063, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The impact that an unforeseen event has on household welfare depends on the extent to which household members can take actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinal data from the Household Income Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) survey to examine the impact of job displacement and serious health problems on: individual labour supply and incomes, household incomes and food expenditure. We extend on the previous literature by examining whether mitigation strategies and their effectiveness differs for the native-born and immigrants. Immigrants make up nearly one-quarter of the Australian population and there are a number of reasons to suspect that they may be less able to mitigate adverse shocks than the native-born.

Keywords: labour supply; consumption; income; job loss; disability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J15 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2016-07
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Published - published in. Applied Economics, 2018, 50, 5302 - 5315

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