Are Asian migrants discriminated against in the labour market?
Subtitle: a case study of Australia
By: by Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Satya Paul, Wahida Yasmeen.
Contributors: Paul, Satya.; Yasmeen, Wahida.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1167; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1167
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Alien labor, Asian -- Australia; Discrimination in employment -- Australia
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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