The earnings of immigrant and native-born men in Canada are compared using eleven cross-sectional surveys spanning the years from 1981 to 1992. Evidence of a decline of the earnings of recent cohorts of immigration in Canada is not found.

The unemployment incidence of immigrant and non-immigrant men in Canada i scompared using eleven cross-sectional surveys spanning the years from 1982 to 1993.

In comparison with the existing Australian literature, this paper provides an alternative approach of investigating the impact of recent immigrants on the real wages and unemployment of native Australians. A national cross-section analysis of 48 labour markets is employed using data from six...

The labour market activity of immigrant and non-immigrant married couples is compared using data from the 1981 and 1991 Canadian Censuses. New evidence is provided on the performance of immigrant men and women in terms of three components of annual earnings; hourly wage rates, hours worked per...

This paper combines data from six Income distribution Surveys of the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the years 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1995 and 1996 to analyze the unemployment incidence of recent male labour market entrants in Australia.

By simulating a model of the optimal level of saving in a small open economy, this paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving for Australia for the period from 1997 to 2051. The calculations focus on the implications of making allowance for the ageing structure of the population. The...