effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an …

This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants …. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world's largest selective immigration programmes …. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the …

research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …