RIS ID
38251
Abstract
This study contributes to the recent debate on immigration and unemployment in Australia by investigating the causal linkage between immigration and unemployment. The question of whether `immigrants rob jobs' is examined by identifying the sources of unemployment through causal linkages between unemployment and other key variables such as immigration. The research finds no Granger causality between immigration and unemployment, but does run from industrial structural change to the high unemployment rate in Australia. This research also finds that both GDP growth and immigration inflow reinforce each other in the course of economic development in Australia.
Publication Details
Tian, G. G. & Shan, J. (1999). Do migrants rob jobs?: new evidence from Australia. Australian Economic History Review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history, 39 (2), 133-142.