Siew‐Ean Khoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5815327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siew‐Ean Khoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siew‐Ean |
| FAMILY NAME | Khoo |
| SIGNATURE | KHOO S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Attracting and Retaining Globally Mobile Skilled Migrants: Policy Challenges based on Australian Research
For people with managerial, professional or technical skills and work experience, the job market is global, if they so choose. Their skills and work experience are sought after in a number of countries and they have a choice of where they would prefer to work. This article 1 examines globally mobile skilled migrants' reasons for migration and return migration, as indicated in Australian research, and the policy challenges some of these reasons ma…
Participation in different types of volunteering at young, middle and older adulthood
Ethnic disparities in social and economic well-being of the immigrant aged in Australia
Trends in International and Internal Teacher Mobility in Three Pacific Island Countries
High‐skilled migration has increasingly been the subject of migration research over the past decade, but the focus has tended to be on health and IT professionals. In this paper, we address the mobility of schoolteachers in a region that has so far received little attention, the Pacific Islands. It is timely to examine trends in teacher mobility in the Pacific, given the shortages that are occurring elsewhere. In particular, the tailoring of immi…
Skilled migration from Europe to Australia
Britain and many other European countries have been important sources of settler migration to Australia for more than two hundred years. While the sources of settler migration to Australia have diversified in the last thirty years to include non‐European countries, with the current emphasis on skills in Australia's migration policy, many skilled people from Europe are coming to Australia both as settlers and as temporary migrants. This paper exam…
Skilled Temporary Migration from Asia-Pacific Countries to Australia
The Asia-Pacific region is a significant source of skilled temporary migration to Australia. The paper provides an overview of recent trends in skilled temporary migration from Asia-Pacific countries to Australia and compares the Asia-Pacific migrants with migrants from other regions to investigate whether the Asia-Pacific migrants are selective of particular demographic and human capital characteristics. Differences are observed between the two …
Household diversity and dynamics of recent immigrants in Australia
Which Skilled Temporary Migrants Become Permanent Residents and Why
While most countries of destination of temporary migrants expect them to return home, it is likely that some temporary migration will become permanent if the migrants decide that they would like to remain longer or indefinitely for various reasons. This paper examines the factors associated with temporary migrants' decision to become or not become permanent residents and the reasons for their decision, using survey data on skilled temporary migra…
Social Cohesion in Australia
Australia's reputation as a successful large scale immigrant-receiving nation is well formed. In the latest wave, not only have millions of diverse people arrived in the post-war period from 1945 to a growing, high income, good employment economy; but the society absorbing them has remained stable and cohesive. This is not to say that it has been entirely plain sailing - sensitive debate, isolated interethnic violence, and the degree of migrant g…
Health and Humanitarian Migrants’ Economic Participation
A Global Labor Market: Factors Motivating the Sponsorship and Temporary Migration of Skilled Workers to Australia
The recruitment of skilled foreign workers is becoming increasingly important to many industrialized countries. This paper examines the factors motivating the sponsorship and temporary migration of skilled workers to Australia under the temporary business entry program, a new development in Australia's migration policy. The importance of labor demand in the destination country in stimulating skilled temporary migration is clearly demonstrated by …
Teaching at Home or Overseas: Teacher Migration from Fiji and the Cook Islands
The migration of skilled workers is increasing rapidly in Pacific Island countries including Fiji and the Cook Islands. This paper focuses on teacher migration because of the potentially far-reaching implications of this migration for educational systems and development. The situation in Fiji and the Cook Islands is compared and contrasted. Based on a survey of teachers in selected schools in Fiji and the Cook Islands, the paper examines factors …
Temporary Skilled Migration to Australia: Employers' Perspectives 1
With the 1996 introduction of a new visa making it easier for employers to sponsor skilled foreign workers, temporary skilled migration has become a significant component of international migration flows to Australia. This paper examines employers' reasons for sponsoring skilled workers from abroad, their modes of recruitment, the occupational skills they require, and their industry profile. We also discuss issues relating to the perception of a …
Stability and change in ethnic identification in Australia: An aggregate level analysis
Temporary Migration of Indian ICT Workers to Australia
This article examines the temporary migration of information and communications technology (ICT) workers from India to Australia under the 457 temporary business entry visa category that was introduced in 1996. The number of Indians arriving in Australia under this visa class has risen more rapidly than that of any major source country, suggesting the competitiveness of Indian ICT workers in the Australian labor market. The article examines the m…
Indian Student Migration to Australia
There has been a marked increase in the migration of students worldwide, particularly from developing countries to developed countries. This article examines the migration of students from India to Australia. The number of Indians arriving in Australia on student visas has shown an increasing trend though numbers have fluctuated from year to year. The article examines the role of Australia's education export market, analyzes the main reasons for …
Sponsorship of Relatives for Migration and Immigrant Settlement Intention
The paper examines how important family reunification is in immigrants' decision to settle permanently in their country of destination. Using longitudinal data for a cohort of recent immigrants to Australia, it examines whether migrants' permanent settlement intention reported soon after arrival is related to their family sponsorship patterns and intention to sponsor, and whether family sponsorship patterns and intention in turn have an effect on…
Adjusting for Change of Status in International Migration: Demographic Implications
The calculation of net immigration for the purpose of estimating the resident population in Australia is based on net permanent and long–term (12 months or more) movements into and out of the country. All international movements with duration of stay in Australia or travel abroad of less than 12 months (defined as short–term) are excluded. However, changes between short–term and long–term/permanent status can occur when people extend or shorten t…
A decomposition of immigrant divorce rates in Australia
The Context of Spouse Migration to Australia
The article discusses five types of spouse migration. Data on the country of origin of migrant spouses and their sponsoring partners suggest that the largest component of spouse migration is chain migration for marriage, with previous immigrants sponsoring partners from their former home country. Other smaller components are sponsorship of spouses by the second generation from the parents' country of origin; sponsorship of foreign spouses by Aust…
Asians in Australia: Patterns of Migration and Settlement
Introduction to the issuesThe issue of Asian immigration has recently been the subject of significantnpublic debate in Australia, following remarks during the 1996 Australian electionnand subsequent comments by the now member for Oxley, Pauline Hanson.nWhile conceived before this debate began, this book aims to provide some ofnthe basic infoimation required for arational discussion about Asian immigration,ninformation which is clearly absent from…
Intermarriage: A Study of Migration and Integration
Correlates of Welfare Dependency among Immigrants in Australia
Correlates of Welfare Dependency among Immigrants in Australia
This article examines the role of a number of factors, including migration category, birthplace, period of arrival, age, gender, educational background and employment status, in explaining immigrants’ dependence on government pensions and benefits. Significant differences in welfare dependency were observed by birthplace and migration category even after controlling for age, education and employment status. Immigrants from Vietnam, Lebanon and Tu…
People Movements between Australia and Asian-Pacific Nations: Trends, Issues and Prospects
Asia and the Pacific, excluding New Zealand, now provide over half of Australia's total immigrant intake. The Asian countries also account for more than half of tourists to Australia and the large majority of fee-paying overseas students enrolled in its tertiary and secondary education institutions. This article examines the growth and diversification of these permanent, long and short-term movements of people from Asia and the Pacific and the gr…
Which Skilled Temporary Migrants Become Permanent Residents and Why
While most countries of destination of temporary migrants expect them to return home, it is likely that some temporary migration will become permanent if the migrants decide that they would like to remain longer or indefinitely for various reasons. This paper examines the factors associated with temporary migrants' decision to become or not become permanent residents and the reasons for their decision, using survey data on skilled temporary migra…
Sponsorship of Relatives for Migration and Immigrant Settlement Intention
The paper examines how important family reunification is in immigrants' decision to settle permanently in their country of destination. Using longitudinal data for a cohort of recent immigrants to Australia, it examines whether migrants' permanent settlement intention reported soon after arrival is related to their family sponsorship patterns and intention to sponsor, and whether family sponsorship patterns and intention in turn have an effect on…
Temporary Skilled Migration to Australia: Employers' Perspectives 1
With the 1996 introduction of a new visa making it easier for employers to sponsor skilled foreign workers, temporary skilled migration has become a significant component of international migration flows to Australia. This paper examines employers' reasons for sponsoring skilled workers from abroad, their modes of recruitment, the occupational skills they require, and their industry profile. We also discuss issues relating to the perception of a …
A Global Labor Market: Factors Motivating the Sponsorship and Temporary Migration of Skilled Workers to Australia
The recruitment of skilled foreign workers is becoming increasingly important to many industrialized countries. This paper examines the factors motivating the sponsorship and temporary migration of skilled workers to Australia under the temporary business entry program, a new development in Australia's migration policy. The importance of labor demand in the destination country in stimulating skilled temporary migration is clearly demonstrated by …
Skilled migration from Europe to Australia
Britain and many other European countries have been important sources of settler migration to Australia for more than two hundred years. While the sources of settler migration to Australia have diversified in the last thirty years to include non‐European countries, with the current emphasis on skills in Australia's migration policy, many skilled people from Europe are coming to Australia both as settlers and as temporary migrants. This paper exam…
The Context of Spouse Migration to Australia
The article discusses five types of spouse migration. Data on the country of origin of migrant spouses and their sponsoring partners suggest that the largest component of spouse migration is chain migration for marriage, with previous immigrants sponsoring partners from their former home country. Other smaller components are sponsorship of spouses by the second generation from the parents' country of origin; sponsorship of foreign spouses by Aust…
Attracting and Retaining Globally Mobile Skilled Migrants: Policy Challenges based on Australian Research
For people with managerial, professional or technical skills and work experience, the job market is global, if they so choose. Their skills and work experience are sought after in a number of countries and they have a choice of where they would prefer to work. This article 1 examines globally mobile skilled migrants' reasons for migration and return migration, as indicated in Australian research, and the policy challenges some of these reasons ma…
Asian Immigrant Settlement and Adjustment in Australia
Asians have been the fastest growing overseas-born population inAustralia, more than doubling from 1981 to 1991. Based on the 1991 Census, this article broadly examines economic and social characteristics of the Asian-born population in Australia. Economic factors such as labor force participation, unemployment, occupation, income and housing reveal a great diversity in the settlement experience of the Asian-born, attributable to the diversity of…
Living Together as Married: A Profile of De Facto Couples in Australia
In 1982 a national survey in Australia showed that 5% of all couples living together were unmarried. This article examines demographic social and economic characteristics of unmarried cohabiting partners among persons 18 to 34 years of age at the time of the survey. Never-married partners and ever-married partners differed from each other in their level of education and economic situation and appeared to have different reasons for being in de fac…
Skilled Temporary Migration from Asia-Pacific Countries to Australia
The Asia-Pacific region is a significant source of skilled temporary migration to Australia. The paper provides an overview of recent trends in skilled temporary migration from Asia-Pacific countries to Australia and compares the Asia-Pacific migrants with migrants from other regions to investigate whether the Asia-Pacific migrants are selective of particular demographic and human capital characteristics. Differences are observed between the two …
Singapore: Rapid Fertility Transition in a Compact Society
Singapore has experienced a dramatic fertility decline over the past 2 decades with the average number of births per woman falling from over 6 to below 2. Factors contributing to this decline and discussed in this paper include government policies and programs designed to influence fertility directly; policies programs and practices in education female employment and public housing which influence fertility indirectly; and the changing values att…
Participation in different types of volunteering at young, middle and older adulthood
Trends in International and Internal Teacher Mobility in Three Pacific Island Countries
High‐skilled migration has increasingly been the subject of migration research over the past decade, but the focus has tended to be on health and IT professionals. In this paper, we address the mobility of schoolteachers in a region that has so far received little attention, the Pacific Islands. It is timely to examine trends in teacher mobility in the Pacific, given the shortages that are occurring elsewhere. In particular, the tailoring of immi…
Teaching at Home or Overseas: Teacher Migration from Fiji and the Cook Islands
The migration of skilled workers is increasing rapidly in Pacific Island countries including Fiji and the Cook Islands. This paper focuses on teacher migration because of the potentially far-reaching implications of this migration for educational systems and development. The situation in Fiji and the Cook Islands is compared and contrasted. Based on a survey of teachers in selected schools in Fiji and the Cook Islands, the paper examines factors …
Ethnic disparities in social and economic well-being of the immigrant aged in Australia
Stability and change in ethnic identification in Australia: An aggregate level analysis
Correlates of Welfare Dependency among Immigrants in Australia
Correlates of Welfare Dependency among Immigrants in Australia
This article examines the role of a number of factors, including migration category, birthplace, period of arrival, age, gender, educational background and employment status, in explaining immigrants’ dependence on government pensions and benefits. Significant differences in welfare dependency were observed by birthplace and migration category even after controlling for age, education and employment status. Immigrants from Vietnam, Lebanon and Tu…
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the participation of women in rural-to-urban migration, with a special focus on patterns in Asia. Most studies of migration have focused on male migrants or heads of households (See, reviews by Simmons et al., 1977; Yap, 1977 for example) on the assumption that females frequently migrate only as part of families and therefore the causes and consequences of their migration are those of their spouses and families. Recently, ho…
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
Siew-Ean Khoo, Peter C. Smith, James T. Fawcett, Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 1247-1263
Maternal Employment: Does it Affect the Children When They Grow Up
Using data on a random sample of young adults in Melbourne, this paper examines the effects of maternal employment during their childhood and adolescence on their educational attainment, relationship with their parents, premarital sexual behaviour, and attitude towards working mothers. Maternal employment has little effect on the characteristics of the son, although men whose mothers work during their adolescence were more likely to have had prem…
Household diversity and dynamics of recent immigrants in Australia
Temporary Migration of Indian ICT Workers to Australia
This article examines the temporary migration of information and communications technology (ICT) workers from India to Australia under the 457 temporary business entry visa category that was introduced in 1996. The number of Indians arriving in Australia under this visa class has risen more rapidly than that of any major source country, suggesting the competitiveness of Indian ICT workers in the Australian labor market. The article examines the m…
Indian Student Migration to Australia
There has been a marked increase in the migration of students worldwide, particularly from developing countries to developed countries. This article examines the migration of students from India to Australia. The number of Indians arriving in Australia on student visas has shown an increasing trend though numbers have fluctuated from year to year. The article examines the role of Australia's education export market, analyzes the main reasons for …
Adjusting for Change of Status in International Migration: Demographic Implications
The calculation of net immigration for the purpose of estimating the resident population in Australia is based on net permanent and long–term (12 months or more) movements into and out of the country. All international movements with duration of stay in Australia or travel abroad of less than 12 months (defined as short–term) are excluded. However, changes between short–term and long–term/permanent status can occur when people extend or shorten t…
Measuring the Thai Family Planning Program's Impact on Fertility Rates: A Comparison of Computer Models
Recent interest in the measurement of the impact of family planning programs on birth rates has focused on the use of component projection computer models. This is shown by the revival of the PROJTARG model developed by Bogue, Edmonds, and Bogue (1973) in applications to the situation in Thailand and Colombia (Teachman, Hogan, and Bogue, 1978) and the development of the TABRAP/CONVERSE models described in Nortman and Bongaarts (1975) and Nortman …
Singapore: Rapid Fertility Transition in a Compact Society
Singapore has experienced a dramatic fertility decline over the past 2 decades with the average number of births per woman falling from over 6 to below 2. Factors contributing to this decline and discussed in this paper include government policies and programs designed to influence fertility directly; policies programs and practices in education female employment and public housing which influence fertility indirectly; and the changing values att…
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the participation of women in rural-to-urban migration, with a special focus on patterns in Asia. Most studies of migration have focused on male migrants or heads of households (See, reviews by Simmons et al., 1977; Yap, 1977 for example) on the assumption that females frequently migrate only as part of families and therefore the causes and consequences of their migration are those of their spouses and families. Recently, ho…
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
Siew-Ean Khoo, Peter C. Smith, James T. Fawcett, Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 1247-1263
Maternal Employment: Does it Affect the Children When They Grow Up
Using data on a random sample of young adults in Melbourne, this paper examines the effects of maternal employment during their childhood and adolescence on their educational attainment, relationship with their parents, premarital sexual behaviour, and attitude towards working mothers. Maternal employment has little effect on the characteristics of the son, although men whose mothers work during their adolescence were more likely to have had prem…
Women in the Cities of Asia: Migration and Urban Adaptation
Changes in the timing of births in Melbourne, Australia
Two 10-year marriage cohorts from two surveys of married women in Melbourne were compared on their timing of the first and second births. The results showed that women who were married in the early 1970s were much more likely to delay their first birth until about the third or fourth year of marriage compared with women who married in the 1960s. However, there was no difference in the timing of their second birth in relation to the first birth be…
Women in the Cities of Asia: Migration and Urban Adaptation
Children in De Facto Relationships
This paper compares the family situation of children living with de facto couples with that of children living with legally married couples and examines the attitudes of de facto couples toward having children. De facto couples with ex‐nuptial children were in a less favourable socio‐economic situation than either de facto couples with step children or married couples with children. Differences were also observed among de facto couples with and w…
Living Together as Married: A Profile of De Facto Couples in Australia
In 1982 a national survey in Australia showed that 5% of all couples living together were unmarried. This article examines demographic social and economic characteristics of unmarried cohabiting partners among persons 18 to 34 years of age at the time of the survey. Never-married partners and ever-married partners differed from each other in their level of education and economic situation and appeared to have different reasons for being in de fac…
Correlates of Welfare Dependency among Immigrants in Australia
Correlates of Welfare Dependency among Immigrants in Australia
This article examines the role of a number of factors, including migration category, birthplace, period of arrival, age, gender, educational background and employment status, in explaining immigrants’ dependence on government pensions and benefits. Significant differences in welfare dependency were observed by birthplace and migration category even after controlling for age, education and employment status. Immigrants from Vietnam, Lebanon and Tu…
People Movements between Australia and Asian-Pacific Nations: Trends, Issues and Prospects
Asia and the Pacific, excluding New Zealand, now provide over half of Australia's total immigrant intake. The Asian countries also account for more than half of tourists to Australia and the large majority of fee-paying overseas students enrolled in its tertiary and secondary education institutions. This article examines the growth and diversification of these permanent, long and short-term movements of people from Asia and the Pacific and the gr…
Asian Immigrant Settlement and Adjustment in Australia
Asians have been the fastest growing overseas-born population inAustralia, more than doubling from 1981 to 1991. Based on the 1991 Census, this article broadly examines economic and social characteristics of the Asian-born population in Australia. Economic factors such as labor force participation, unemployment, occupation, income and housing reveal a great diversity in the settlement experience of the Asian-born, attributable to the diversity of…
Intermarriage: A Study of Migration and Integration
Asians in Australia: Patterns of Migration and Settlement
Introduction to the issuesThe issue of Asian immigration has recently been the subject of significantnpublic debate in Australia, following remarks during the 1996 Australian electionnand subsequent comments by the now member for Oxley, Pauline Hanson.nWhile conceived before this debate began, this book aims to provide some ofnthe basic infoimation required for arational discussion about Asian immigration,ninformation which is clearly absent from…
A decomposition of immigrant divorce rates in Australia
The Context of Spouse Migration to Australia
The article discusses five types of spouse migration. Data on the country of origin of migrant spouses and their sponsoring partners suggest that the largest component of spouse migration is chain migration for marriage, with previous immigrants sponsoring partners from their former home country. Other smaller components are sponsorship of spouses by the second generation from the parents' country of origin; sponsorship of foreign spouses by Aust…
Adjusting for Change of Status in International Migration: Demographic Implications
The calculation of net immigration for the purpose of estimating the resident population in Australia is based on net permanent and long–term (12 months or more) movements into and out of the country. All international movements with duration of stay in Australia or travel abroad of less than 12 months (defined as short–term) are excluded. However, changes between short–term and long–term/permanent status can occur when people extend or shorten t…
Sponsorship of Relatives for Migration and Immigrant Settlement Intention
The paper examines how important family reunification is in immigrants' decision to settle permanently in their country of destination. Using longitudinal data for a cohort of recent immigrants to Australia, it examines whether migrants' permanent settlement intention reported soon after arrival is related to their family sponsorship patterns and intention to sponsor, and whether family sponsorship patterns and intention in turn have an effect on…
Temporary Migration of Indian ICT Workers to Australia
This article examines the temporary migration of information and communications technology (ICT) workers from India to Australia under the 457 temporary business entry visa category that was introduced in 1996. The number of Indians arriving in Australia under this visa class has risen more rapidly than that of any major source country, suggesting the competitiveness of Indian ICT workers in the Australian labor market. The article examines the m…
Indian Student Migration to Australia
There has been a marked increase in the migration of students worldwide, particularly from developing countries to developed countries. This article examines the migration of students from India to Australia. The number of Indians arriving in Australia on student visas has shown an increasing trend though numbers have fluctuated from year to year. The article examines the role of Australia's education export market, analyzes the main reasons for …
Stability and change in ethnic identification in Australia: An aggregate level analysis
Social Cohesion in Australia
Australia's reputation as a successful large scale immigrant-receiving nation is well formed. In the latest wave, not only have millions of diverse people arrived in the post-war period from 1945 to a growing, high income, good employment economy; but the society absorbing them has remained stable and cohesive. This is not to say that it has been entirely plain sailing - sensitive debate, isolated interethnic violence, and the degree of migrant g…
Health and Humanitarian Migrants’ Economic Participation
Economics (32 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (28 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Geography (22 works) · Political science (22 works) · Demographic economics (19 works) · Economic growth (17 works) · Demography (14 works) · Development economics (13 works) · Immigration (13 works)