Department of Economics. University of Melbourne. Parkville Victoria
3052 Australia
ABSTRACT
The earnings distributions of full-time employee male and female immigrants
to Australian are contrasted with those of native-born workers using data
from ABS Income Distribution Surveys spanning the period 1982 to 1996.
In addition to presentation of summary measures of distributional features,
non-parametric kernel density estimation methods are employed to facilitate
examination of the entire wage distributions. These methods are
also adapted as (as per DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996)) to permit consideration
of the roles played by changes in the wage structure versus changes in
the observed skill composition of immigrant and native-born workers in
explaining distributional changes over the fourteen year period.
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