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The Impact of Immigration on the Earnings of Natives: Evidence from Australian Micro Data[Note 1. The authors are grateful to Jeff Borland, Ted McDonald, ...]
Author(s) -
Addison Thomas,
Worswick Christopher
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4932.00040
Subject(s) - immigration , earnings , demographic economics , economics , affect (linguistics) , distribution (mathematics) , labour economics , geography , sociology , accounting , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology , communication
The present paper provides a new approach to investigate the impact of recent immigrants on the real wages of native Australians. The method involves cross‐section analysis of 48 labour markets using data from six consecutive Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) income distribution surveys for the years 1982 through 1996. Recent immigrants are not found to significantly affect the real wages of native Australians. This conclusion remains unchanged when the specific impact of immigration on less educated or young Australian workers is investigated.