ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of skilled and unskilled international migration in the contemporary world is well researched (see, for example, Franklin 2003; Kuptsch and Eng Fong 2006; Özden and Schiff 2007) and is a recurrent issue in policy debates (see Iredale 2002; Lowell 2007). Much of the focus has been on evaluating labour market effects (Borjas 2005) and the impact of selection criteria in the immigrant settlement process (Cobb-Clark 1999). To these ends, a range of methodologies have been used, including: econometric procedures (Dehejia and Wahba 1999), input-output analysis (Glass et al. 2006), simulation techniques (see Bard 1978), spatial and GIS-based analyses (see Courtney 2005), and statistical modelling of data derived from questionnaire-based surveys (Zhang et al. 2006). The analytical approaches within which these methodologies have been applied vary from microlevel analyses using individual-level data to meso-scale evaluations.
