The Productivity Commission has backed calls to remove barriers to skilled migration by scrapping skills lists for employer-sponsored visas.
Occupation lists could be scrapped and replaced with income thresholds to promote more skilled migration using employer-sponsored visas, under a proposal put forward by the Productivity Commission.
The report also warns that Australia risked losing its attractiveness as a destination for skilled migrants as other nations took steps to lure workers. A key finding of the report was that Australia’s migration settings “are overly restrictive and prevent skills matching”, which make them a risk for productivity growth, particularly at a time when unemployment is at a near 50-year low of 3.5 per cent and global competition for skills is fierce.
However, the commission warned against stopping access for lower-paid occupations, particularly in the areas of human services such as disability and aged care, and in areas that rural and regional areas struggle to attract.
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