Finding a Place to Call Home: Immigration in Australia

Alfred Dockery, Alan Duncan, Astghik Mavisakalyan, Toan Nguyen and Richard Seymour

No FS07, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Report series from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School

Abstract: What are the key issues and challenges relating to immigration in Australia? Where do immigrants come from, where do they settle, and what types of jobs do they do? How do migrants affect the wages? To what extent do we see skills mismatch among migrants entering our workforce? Does discrimination and bias remain an issue in our society? Are we doing enough to support the forced immigrants to Australia? This seventh report in BCEC’s Focus on the States Series seeks to provide insights into these questions and many more. We explore the profile and evolution of immigration in Australia over recent years, and undertake a comprehensive assessment of the contributions immigrants make to Australia’s social and economic development. The report provides new evidence to better inform the debates on the labour market impact of immigrants and highlights the positive impact of immigrants on Australian economy. It also explores the extent of acceptance of multiculturalism in Australia and provides an assessment of immigrants’ health and wellbeing. There is a special focus on humanitarian migrants in the report through an analysis of a new longitudinal dataset of humanitarian migrants to Australia. Immigration is a defining feature of Australia’s economic and social life and will shape the nature of tomorrow’s Australia.

Keywords: immigration; migration; skills mismatch; workforce and skills; economic growth; multiculturalism; humanitarian migration; refugees; regional migration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 J61 O15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 150 pages
Date: 2019-11
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