Skilled migration
Alternative labels
Overseas qualifications
Skilled migrants
Report
Effectiveness of the current temporary skilled visa system in targeting genuine skills shortages
This inquiry was established to examine the effectiveness of the current temporary skilled visa system in targeting genuine skills shortages.
Article
Settling migrants in regional areas will need more than a visa to succeed
Encouraging migrants to move to regional areas could be a win-win' scenario, as long as policymakers pay attention to five key factors.
Discussion paper
Have your say: should New Zealand ratify the Forced Labour Protocol?
This discussion paper seeks New Zealanders' views on whether the country should ratify the International Labour Organization 2014 Forced Labour Protocol, a binding treaty-level instrument addressing issues of modern slavery and forced labour.
Policy report
Mapping migrants: Australians’ wide-ranging experiences of immigration
This policy paper continues the discussion started in Australian attitudes to immigration: coming apart or common ground? It finds that, statistically, the wealth of the suburb we live in can have a major impact on the type of interaction we may have with migrants.
Dataset
3417.0 - Understanding migrant outcomes - insights from the Australian Census and Migrants Integrated Dataset, Australia, 2016
The 2016 Australian Census and Migrants Integrated Dataset (ACMID) has been created by linking two rich sources of migrant data together, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Australian Census of Population and Housing and permanent migrant settlement data from the Department of Social Services (DSS). This linked dataset comprises migrants whose arrival date pertaining...