This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main …. (4) Within a sending country, Australia attracts less total but higher-skill migrants than does the United States. This … can be attributed, however, to the fact that the skill price in Australia is lower than the U.S. skill price, so that …

ties to Mexico than with the fact that skill-based admissions are less important in the United States than in Australia and …