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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …
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using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …
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In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and … the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income rank matters independently of absolute … income, with greater weight given to rank by males, migrants, and individuals from wealthy families. Rank …
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This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...
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