influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …

Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after …

Three decades ago most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … environment, with so many temporary visa holders, has led to a two-step immigration policy whereby an increasing proportion of … early years in Australia, they have substantially reduced full-time employment and substantially increased part …

From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a … assisted immigration policies. Using a panel of colonies/states over the years 1862 to 1913 I investigate the association … to Australia reduced the need for assisted migration, slumps in the UK increased the take-up of assisted passages …

The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a … description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the … contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after … existing evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to remit while in terms of regional effects …