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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 363

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• Thema: Immigration ; immigrant skills ; immigration policy ; Einwanderung ; Humankapital ; Qualifikation ; Einwanderungsrecht ; Vergleich ; Australien ; Kanada ; USA

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Antecol, Heather ; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. ; Trejo, Stephen J.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2001

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21223
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ