The Changing Labour Force Experience of New Migrants (2004)
Department of Immigration, Indigenous and Multicultural Affairs (DIMIA)
The labour force experiences of new migrants say much about the overall success of their settlement into Australia. Do they find jobs that match their skills and provide a satisfactory level of earnings? How do their varied backgrounds and English capabilities affect their engagement with work in Australia? How susceptible are they to unemployment?
An initiative of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) has produced a world class data set – the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA) – that enables these and other questions to be answered authoritatively. Two sets of surveys have been conducted, the first including migrants who received their Visa offshore and arrived between 1993 and 1995 (Cohort 1), the second including migrants who received their Visa offshore and arrived between 1999 and 2000 (Cohort 2). In this report, which should be read as a companion piece to earlier documents, we focus specifically on the labour market experiences of the two migrant cohorts, as their period of settlement in Australia extends from six months (Wave 1) to 18 months (Wave 2).
To access a copy of this report click on the DIMIA link below:
http://www.immi.gov.au/research/publications/
Sue Richardson
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