Skilled migrants and labour market integration: how important is the selection process?

Table 4 Selected difference in differences probit regression statistics for higher occupational classification of employed primary applicants of Family Stream and Skill Stream visas aged 18-54

Treatment population		GSMs only				GSM and employer sponsored migrants
Regression specification		1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
Per cent correctly predicted^a		0.6505	0.6654	0.7201	0.7289	0.6382	0.6656	0.7120	0.7278
	Of those employed	0.2304	0.3257	0.5213	0.5375	0.5807	0.5989	0.6411	0.6486
	Of those not employed	0.8911	0.8600	0.8340	0.8385	0.6811	0.7154	0.7649	0.7869
Likelihood		−4981.5	−4739.5	−4358.2	−4274.4	−6502.4	−6187.3	−5627.9	−5519.7
R2		0.0487	0.0949	0.1677	0.1837	0.0749	0.1198	0.1994	0.2148
Treatment effects^b		0.0655	0.0662	0.0800	0.0984	0.0528	0.0469	0.0583	0.0692
		(0.0376)	(0.0384)	(0.0364)	(0.0361)	(0.0347)	(0.0353)	(0.0326)	(0.0323)
	For men	0.0383	0.0511	0.0704	0.0960	0.0361	0.0376	0.0527	0.0679
		(0.0375)	(0.0389)	(0.0360)	(0.0354)	(0.0350)	(0.0359)	(0.0321)	(0.0316)
	For women	0.1126	0.0924	0.0967	0.1026	0.0857	0.0655	0.0694	0.0717
		(0.0377)	(0.0376)	(0.0372)	(0.0374)	(0.0343)	(0.0340)	(0.0335)	(0.0336)