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- Title
Immigrant Unemployment in the First Year of Australian Labour Market Activity.
- Authors
Miller, Paul W.
- Abstract
Analysis of data from a 1983 Manpower Programs Survey shows that the relatively high unemployment rates experienced by overseas-born labour market entrants are reasonably widespread across immigrant groups. One exception is refugees, who are more likely to be unemployed than non-refugees. Consistent with prior research, additional years of education are associated with only modest reductions in the unemployment rates of immigrants. However, immigrants are able to reduce their predicted unemployment rates considerably by obtaining information on Australian job opportunities prior to migrating. The ratio of the unemployment rate of recent settlers to that of the native-born provides a measure of the relative labour market success of the two groups. For females, this ratio rose from 1.8 to 3.9 between 1974 and 1982, suggesting a marked decline in the relative labour market performance of recent arrivals. The ratio of the unemployment rate of male recent settlers to that of Australian-born workers increased from 2.7 to 3.3 between 1974 and 1982. Moreover, the process of adjustment for these groups was considerably slower than for male immigrants from English-speaking countries. For the latter group the unemployment problem tends to disappear reasonably rapidly after the first year of Australian labour market activity. But among other groups, high levels of unemployment tend to persist for a number of years after arrival in Australia.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; UNEMPLOYMENT; LABOR market
- Publication
Economic Record, 1986, Vol 62, Issue 176, p82
- ISSN
0013-0249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-4932.1986.tb00884.x