Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …

status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose … immigrant spouses with a postsecondary credential below a college degree and native-born high school graduates. -- status …

school-to-work transition. The dataset is based on five different cohorts from the Youth in Transition surveys (YIT) and the … tend to discourage further education. A result worth noticing is that males who did not complete secondary school suffer …

"By OECD standards, the share of the Australian labour force with at least a secondary school qualification is low. One … way to rectify this shortfall is to improve rates of re-engagement in education among early school leavers. This paper … examines the patterns of re-engagement among early school leavers in the HILDA sample. A key finding is that the early years …