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The labour market for native and international PhD students : similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2021

Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further ﬁnd that sheepskin effect are only important for workers in...

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Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?

Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2023

This paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home...

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Working Parents, Financial Insecurity, and Child-Care : Mental Health in the Time of Covid-19

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

Study (UKHLS) to document how this phenomenon is related to the situation of working parents who now have to manage … Kingdom is worse for working parents, and that it is especially related to the increased financial insecurity and the time …

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Returns to education in China : evidence from the great higher education expansion

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Wei, Yi; Zhu, Yu - 2022

difference-in-differences estimator using rural students to control for common time trends. We find that the Great HE raised … interpreted as the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) of education on earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE only … the 2SLS returns for students from more disadvantaged backgrounds are at least as high as their more advantaged …

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Returns to University Quality in Australia : A Two-Stage Analysis

Carroll, David - 2014

This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...

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Local Signals and the Returns to Foreign Education

Tani, Massimiliano - 2016

This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor schooling quality in the country of education or employers' discrimination in the host country. The quasi-experiment is the possibility for migrants to undertake an official...

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The Wage Premium of Foreign Education : New Evidence from Australia

Chan, Gavin - 2012

We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment : The German Case

Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021

Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...

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