The government's planned caps on foreign students won't see the light of the day because the Senate won't approve them. While foreign student commencement will still fall over the coming year, the drag on GDP growth won't be as large as we previously had anticipated. And while lower immigration reduces both supply and demand in the economy, our analysis shows that more arrivals of foreign students are on balance inflationary.
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