Migranten vormen meer dan een kwart van de werkende bevolking in Australia

The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/16608276?story_id=16608276&fsrc=rss

Foreign-born labour

Alien invasions

The share of foreign-born labour in rich countries

Jul 16th 2010

AS ECONOMIES across the developed world fell into recession in 2008, legal permanent immigration to the mostly rich members of the OECD declined by 6%, after five years during which growth averaged 11%. Despite the slowdown in the arrival of new migrants, the number of foreign-born workers in most OECD countries rose in 2008 from a year earlier. In 2007 one in every four workers in Australia was born abroad; in 2008 that share rose further, to 26.5%. Among the 18 OECD countries for which 2008 data are available, the share of the foreign-born in the labour force fell only in Luxembourg (not shown), Austria, Belgium and France. The number of foreign-born workers in America rose by 308,000 in 2008, to 25.1m.