Wealth Distributions of Migrant and Australian-born Households.

• Autores: Denise Doiron, Rochelle Guttmann
• Localización: Economic record, ISSN 0013-0249, Vol. 85, Nº. 268, 2009, págs. 32-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wealth is an important measure of overall economic well-being and a crucial factor in migrants’ ability to integrate into their new country. Using data from the 2002 HILDA survey, this study explores the disparity between the wealth distributions of native-born and foreign-born households in Australia. Using quantile regressions the results reveal that migrants have significantly less wealth than their Australian-born counterparts throughout the wealth distribution. This is despite the greater wealth-generating characteristics of the foreign-born. The wealth differentials are reduced but still negative for the migrant cohorts who have been in Australia for over 25 years.