"Before the mid 1980s aggregate labour-force participation rates of migrants were higher than those of Australian-born people. They are now lower. Is this trend an artefact of differences in the age structure of the two populations? [The author's] analysis shows that it is not. The deterioration in the labour-force participation of migrants is real." excerpt

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