Australian Worker Displacement Making Headlines Down Under

Edwin Rubenstein’s articles on the immigrant displacement of American workers show that the immigrant share of U.S. employment has, at least in the pre-Trump era, been remorselessly increasing, to the cost of American workers. There are close parallels with this phenomenon in Australia... [Yes, there is such a thing as too much immigration, by Tim Colebatch, Inside Story, April 20, 2017]

From 2008 to 2016, the Australian labour market increased by 474,000 full-time jobs but only 74,000 of them went to the Australian-born. That’s just 16% or fewer than one in six.

Foreign-born workers, “and their families”, Colebatch notes, find it absurdly easy to gain permanent residency and with it a ticket to Australia’s generous welfare, health and education systems, our clean air and water, efficient public transportation, and other government benefits, without having contributed a tax-paying lifetime to financing them.

As Colebatch notes, employers warmly embrace foreign workers—wage underpayment is rife and there are no training costs for off-the-shelf foreign skilled workers.

Colebatch concludes that Australia has followed, with similar disastrous outcomes for the native-born, “the US model of importing skilled labour and leaving the young in the rustbelt to scrape by as best they can” and that migrant workers “do not generate enough demand to replace the jobs they have taken”. “What is clear”, he says, “is that our current system is not working for those who were born and raised here”. It is not, he says, “anti-migrant, let alone racist, to say that that is an outrageous failure of policy”...

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Australian Worker Displacement Making Headlines Down Under