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The Impact of Immigration on a Depressed Labour Market: The South Australian Experience*
Author(s) -
HARRISON DAVID S.
Publication year - 1984
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/j.1475-4932.1984.tb00838.x
Subject(s) - immigration , unemployment , labour economics , economics , demographic economics , unemployment rate , economic growth , political science , law
This paper examines the impact of immigration on the relatively depressed labour market in South Australia during the 1976‐81 inter‐censal period. The findings indicate that recently arrived immigrants have experienced exceedingly high unemployment rates. However, this is consistent with the view that immigration generates additional job opportunities for Australian residents (except in the manufacturing industry and trades occupations), and that immigrants experience high unemployment rates specifically because they have been unable to compete a ‘fair share’ of jobs away from residents already entrenched in the labour market.