Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177148 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11344
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy reforms. Nonetheless, the gains are modest in comparison to a substantial and persistent performance advantage of U.S. skilled immigrants. Given that there is increasingly little to distinguish the skilled immigration policies of these countries, we interpret the U.S. advantage as primarily reflecting the relative positive selectivity of U.S. immigrants.
Subjects: 
skilled migration
immigrant selection policies
immigrant labour market performance
JEL: 
J24
J15
J08
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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