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"Pathways to resolving Australia’s skills shortage were a key discussion point
at the government’s recent economic reform roundtable. One of those discussions
specifically focused on the need to streamline skills recognition for qualified
migrants.
The Productivity Commission has highlighted the continuing mismatch for many
migrants between their skills and qualifications and their level of employment
over the past decade.
In research commissioned by non-profit Settlement Services International last
year, Deloitte Access Economics put a number to that mismatch. They found that
if permanent migrants worked in jobs matching their skills at the same rate as
their Australian-born counterparts, A$70 billion could be added to the economy
over the next 10 years.
That calculation was based on recent permanent migrants across the skilled,
family and humanitarian pathways, with 44% working in jobs below their skill
level.
To investigate the drivers of this mismatch, we interviewed permanent skilled
migrants with high-level professional qualifications about their experiences
entering the labour force."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
