 The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Natives: Evidence from Australian Micro DataT. Addison and Christopher Worswick No 728, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne Abstract: In comparison with the existing Australian literature, this paper provides an alternative approach of investigating the impact of recent immigrants on the real wages and unemployment of native Australians. A national cross-section analysis of 48 labour markets is employed using data from six consecutive ABS Income Distribution surveys for the years 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994,1995 and 1996. The evidence indicates that recent immigrants do not significantly affect the real wages of native Australians. This conclusion is unaltered when the specific impact of immigration on less educated or young Australian workers is investigated. Furthermore, it is found that immigration reduces the probability that a 'typical' or 'representative' Australian individual is unemployed. Overall, these results add to a growing body of literature which has consistently failed to find that immigration adversely affects the wages or employment prospects of native-born Australians. Keywords: IMMIGRATION; LABOUR MARKET; AUSTRALIA (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mlb:wpaper:728 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 4th Floor, FBE Building, Level 4, 111 Barry Street. Victoria, 3010, Australia. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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