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Self-Employed Contractors in Australia: Incidence and Characteristics

Waite, Matthew; Will, Lou - EconWPA - 2001

This paper presents an analysis of self-employed contracting in Australia. The analysis covers all self-employed contractors, including dependent and independent contractors. The paper finds that self- employed contractors have become more common in Australia over the past 20 years. In August...

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Comparing the “D.V” lottery with the point system: costs, benefits and a superior alternative.

Uwaifo, Ruth - EconWPA - 2005

The diversity visa lottery popularly known as the D.V lottery is a U.S relatively new immigration policy that was … in the U.S. However, from the policy inception, immigration specialists seriously doubted the claimed objective. They … would be probably had to verify. In this paper, we review in details the D.V immigration policy program considering …

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Public pensions and immigration policy when voters are differently skilled

Krieger, Tim - EconWPA - 2004

Although immigration of workers generates a positive externality on members of domestic pension systems, many countries … effects from immigration as well. …

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Staying Competitive in the High-tech Global Economy: Another Look at the H-1B Visa

Cynamon, Barry - EconWPA - 2001

This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining … support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration … immigration and then reviews the current landscape of U.S. immigration and the H-1B visa market, showing the strong moral and …

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The Earnings of US immigrants

Jasso, Guillermina; Rosensweig, Mark; Smith, James P. - EconWPA - 2003

of skill selectivity of those migrants …

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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

This study addresses the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the labour market outcomes of immigrants. It simultaneously identifies the separate effects of macro conditions at the time of entry to the labour market and at the time of the survey, while allowing for cohort effects. Also, for...

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Are Immigrants Positively or Negatively Selected? The Role of Immigrant Selection Criteria and Self-Selection

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

of schooling among applicants, as a result of the positive selection at the review step the resulting migrants are …-selection that occurs at the application stage, and the resulting migrants are negatively selected in this dimension. …

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40 million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited

Corden, Max - EconWPA - 2004

If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline in the fertility rate or a very large increase in the rate of net migration. This lecture explores this interesting question.

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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

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Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Skuterud, Mikal - EconWPA - 2004

The study explores causes of the deterioration in entry earnings of Canadian immigrant cohorts by estimating an empirical specification that nests a number of competing explanations found in the Canadian literature. To do this, we use the pooled sample of Canadian-born and immigrant men employed...

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