Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

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Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of immigrants from Latin America than do the other two countries. After excluding Latin American immigrants, the observable skills of immigrants are similar in the three countries. These patterns suggest that the comparatively low overall skill level of U.S. immigrants may have more to do with geographic and historical ties to Mexico than with the fact that skill-based admissions are less important in the United States than in Australia and Canada.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Claremont Colleges Working Papers in Economics ; No. 2001-26

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Antecol, Heather ; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. ; Trejo, Stephen J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics
• (where): Claremont, CA
• (when): 2001

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/94575
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET