Occupational Attainment and Immigrant Economic Progress in Australia

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

No 3316, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited international transferability of human capital skills results in immigrants entering into relatively low status occupations when they first enter the Australian labour market. Comparison with similar research for the US suggests that the different immigrant selection regimes (primarily family reunion in the US, skill-based immigration in Australia) do not impact on the negative association between occupational status and pre-immigration labour market experience.

Keywords: earnings; occupation; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J24 J31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2008-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-ltv and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84, S45-S56

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