The socio-economic status of migrant populations in regional and rural Australia and its implications for future population policy

摘要: The migrant population living in regional and rural Australia has been growing, partly because of the introduction expansion a number state-specific migration programs by Australian Government over period since 1995. were created response to both skill shortages environmental social critiques urban migration. This study uses data from 2006 Census Population Housing compare five socio-economic measures: labour force participation, unemployment, income, educational attainment, occupational status, between Australia-born populations. results reveal that now records similar values for participation rate, unemployment median individual weekly proportion high level occupations population. most notable difference is migrants have substantially higher education, particularly university education. differences men women on these measures are wider than Australia-born. Recently-arrived significantly more educated, highly skilled paid their longer-standing counterparts. also discusses larger groups Australia. improvement outcomes experienced broad similarity those regions strengthen case increasing settlers going regions.