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Labour mobility with vocational skill: Australian demand and Pacific supply

How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? T ... Show more
How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which national production occurs through a set of Leontief producation functions that shift over time with technological change. This model is used to estimate that the Australian economy growing at historical rates through the year 2050 will demand approximately two million migrant [technical and vocational education and training] TVET workers, many of which could be supplied from the Pacific Islands.
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Authors: Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A.

Date: 2021

Geographic subjects: Australia; Oceania

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Labour market; Migration; Vocational education and training ... [+] Show more