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The Earnings of Immigrant Men in Australia: Assimilation, Cohort Effects, and Macroeconomic Conditions
Author(s) -
MCDONALD JAMES TED,
WORSWICK CHRISTOPHER
Publication year - 1999
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.1475-4932.1999.tb02433.x
Subject(s) - earnings , immigration , native born , economics , demographic economics , cohort effect , distribution (mathematics) , cohort , labour economics , geography , medicine , mathematics , mathematical analysis , accounting , archaeology
This paper analyzes the earnings of immigrant men in Australia using data from Income Distribution Surveys for 1982, 1986 and 1990. The paper expands on the standard approach used in the literature to evaluate immigrant earnings adjustment by considering the impact of current labour market conditions and conditions at labour market entry on current earnings. Immigrants from non‐English speaking backgrounds have significantly lower earnings on arrival in Australia compared with native‐born males, and this gap is not narrowed as years in Australia increase. However, poorer macroeconomic conditions at entry are found to have a significantly smaller negative effect on the earnings of immigrants from non‐English speaking backgrounds than native‐born males.