Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20406 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1167
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of being unemployed for Asian and non-Asian migrants controlling for various characteristics including age, education, and English language ability. More importantly, we control for the visa status of the migrants. Our results suggest that there are significant ?unexplained differences? for males that may be ascribed to ?discrimination? against Asian migrants. However, the results for females are mixed: the evidence suggests that Asian females do worse than non-Asian females only in the first year after arrival.
Subjects: 
immigrants
discrimination
unemployment
mobility
wage differentials
JEL: 
J61
J64
J31
J7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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