Immigration Policies and their Impact: The Case of New Zealand and Australia

Rainer Winkelmann

No 169, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are studied. Finally, an attempt is made to evaluate policy outcomes using empirical evidence of immigrants arriving in the 1990s.

Keywords: skilled immigration; population growth; Point system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2000-07
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Published - published in: Djajic, Slobodan (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policies and Economic Impact, Routledge, 2001, 1-20

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