This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after … evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to remit while in terms of regional effects, South Asians …

The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a … description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the … contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are …

Three decades ago most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … environment, with so many temporary visa holders, has led to a two-step immigration policy whereby an increasing proportion of … early years in Australia, they have substantially reduced full-time employment and substantially increased part …

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …