Australian and Canadian Immigration Strategies and Labour Market Outcomes Compared (2004)
A Report Commissioned by the Department of Immigration & Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA)
The National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) to prepare a research report on the comparison of Australian and Canadian Immigration strategies and outcomes. Lately widespread anxiety has existed amongst immigrant countries, including Canada, that in recent years migrants have had an increasingly difficult time in gaining satisfactory employment. Australia is an exception to this trend, migrants who have arrived in Australia in recent years have had both higher levels of employment, and higher earnings if employed. Canada and Australia are very similar economies and societies and they have migration programs that have many features in common, but migrants to Australia are more successful in the labour market.
The NILS report includes some major features of the recent economies of the two countries, a overview of the recent history of migration in the two countries, a review of the two migration policies and programs, the resulting differences in the main characteristics of the migrants, a comparison of the labour market outcomes in the two countries of migrants, and a reflection on why the recent labour market outcomes of migrants have been better in Australia than in Canada.
Prof Sue Richardson & Mr Laurence Lester
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