New Zealanders can cross borders freely, work and live in Australia indefinitely thanks to the Trans-Tasman Travel Agreement. This paper uses a recently developed decomposition method to decompose the weekly wage gap at various quantiles on the wage distribution between New Zealand-born (NZ-born) and Australian-born workers, and between NZ-born workers, migrants from other English speaking countries (OESC), and from non-English speaking countries (NESC) to determine how free and regulated migration influences migrants’ performance in the Australian labour market. We found that NZ-born workers earned higher weekly wages than both Australian-born and NESC workers but earned lower wages than OESC migrants. Differences in endowment were primarily responsible for the wage gaps between NZ-born and Australian-born workers and between NZ-born and OESC migrants. However, differences in returns to worker and job characteristics are mainly responsible for the wage gap between NZ-born and NESC migrants.

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自由移民与受监管移民：比较澳大利亚出生的新西兰工人、其他移民和澳大利亚出生的工人的工资

得益于跨塔斯曼旅行协议，新西兰人可以无限期地自由过境，在澳大利亚工作和生活。本文使用最近开发的分解方法来分解新西兰出生（NZ-born）和澳大利亚出生的工人之间以及新西兰出生的工人，来自其他英语国家的移民之间工资分布的各个分位数的周工资差距(OESC) 和来自非英语国家 (NESC) 的调查，以确定自由和受监管的移民如何影响移民在澳大利亚劳动力市场上的表现。我们发现，新西兰出生的工人的周薪高于澳大利亚出生的工人和 NESC 工人，但低于 OESC 移民。禀赋差异是造成新西兰出生工人与澳大利亚出生工人之间以及新西兰出生工人与 OESC 移民之间工资差距的主要原因。然而，工人回报和工作特征的差异是造成新西兰出生和 NESC 移民之间工资差距的主要原因。