@article{dbf7c85e3cc543df829861ec9ebbb253,
title = "Australia{\textquoteright}s superior skilled migration outcomes compared with Canada{\textquoteright}s",
abstract = "Australia and Canada are global exemplars of skilled migration policy, designed to have important effects on economic growth. This article assesses the development and outcomes of their permanent migration programmes for a range of regulated professions. We compare the matched census data from both countries in 2016 and then examine the key drivers of the major differences found through qualitative interviews. Although the trends in numbers and source countries and characteristics of skilled migrants are similar, their earnings relative to equivalent native-born earnings are far lower in Canada than in Australia. This reflects the Australian government's greater power to initiate and drive policy reform agendas, early strategies designed to enhance foreign credential recognition and a heightened role for employers including through two-step migration. Canada has recently announced significantly expanded migration intakes. These seem unlikely to lead to strong economic growth, unless entry requirements are tightened and more targeted support provided.",
author = "Benjamin Harrap and Lesleyanne Hawthorne and Margaret Holland and McDonald, {James Ted} and Anthony Scott",
note = "Funding Information: This article is based on a 2016–2019 Discovery Project funded by the Australian Research Council which compared skilled migration, professional regulation and labour market outcomes in Australia and Canada in select fields. We express our appreciation to Professor Arthur Sweetman (McMaster University) for his advice regarding policy and data matching issues; to the Statistics Division of the Department of Home Affairs in Australia for its provision of visa databases; and to the wide cross‐section of key informants interviewed for the overall study (including senior policymakers in the Australian and Canadian governments). The analysis of the Canadian data presented in this article was conducted at the New Brunswick Research Data Centre (NB‐RDC), which is part of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN). The services and activities provided by the NB‐RDC are made possible by the support of the University of New Brunswick, the province of New Brunswick, the New Brunswick Social Policy Research Network, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Statistics Canada. Funding Information: This article is based on a 2016–2019 Discovery Project funded by the Australian Research Council which compared skilled migration, professional regulation and labour market outcomes in Australia and Canada in select fields. We express our appreciation to Professor Arthur Sweetman (McMaster University) for his advice regarding policy and data matching issues; to the Statistics Division of the Department of Home Affairs in Australia for its provision of visa databases; and to the wide cross-section of key informants interviewed for the overall study (including senior policymakers in the Australian and Canadian governments). The analysis of the Canadian data presented in this article was conducted at the New Brunswick Research Data Centre (NB-RDC), which is part of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN). The services and activities provided by the NB-RDC are made possible by the support of the University of New Brunswick, the province of New Brunswick, the New Brunswick Social Policy Research Network, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Statistics Canada. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Authors. International Migration {\textcopyright} 2021 IOM.",
year = "2022",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1111/imig.12940",
language = "English",
volume = "60",
pages = "91--107",
journal = "International Migration",
issn = "0020-7985",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "5",
}
