Similar Search Results

Estimating Cognitive Gaps Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Leigh, Andrew; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

Indigenous/non-Indigenous test score gap appears to be due to socio-economic differences, such as income and parental education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967988

School Achievement and Labour Market Outcomes

Marks, Gary; Ainley, John - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

Achieving well in school, and completing Year 12, have significant employment and earnings outcomes for young people a decade or more after leaving school. Early school leavers have less chance of securing full-time employment, and a problematic early start in the labor market can be difficult...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971333

Immigrant Earnings Change: The Importance of Australian Schooling.

Will, L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977266

The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Australia: the impact of unobserved heterogeneity

Salehin, Mosfequs; Breunig, Robert - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

labour markets. Immigrants to Australia are selected on observable characteristics. They may also differ from natives on … also seems important for finding cohort effects. Immigrants that arrived before 1976 faced a larger wage gap compared to … from non-English speaking backgrounds. All immigrants experience wage assimilation as time spent in Australia increases. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079136

The Job Search and Investments of Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Connolly, Marie D.; Worswick, … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967987

The Asset Portfolios of Native-born and Foreign-born Households

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

levels, single immigrants have a wealth advantage of almost $185,000 relative to single native-born individuals. Although the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971429

Permanent Income Inequality: Australia, Britain, Germany, and the United States Compared

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

A common critique of most measures of income inequality, which are based on a single year's income, is that they fail to take account of income mobility. If income fluctuations are large, and individuals can smooth consumption, then high inequality and high mobility may be no worse than low...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511760

Getting Ahead: The Determinants of Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women

Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968007

More Inequality, Less Social Mobility

Andrews, Dan; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032847

Labour Mobility in Australia in the Nineties: A Preliminary Look at the Effects of the Technological Change.

Junankar, P.N.; kapuscinski, C.A.; Meng, X. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

This paper forms part of a larger Australian Research Council funded project designed to encrease our understanding of labour mobility and its determinants and , in particular, to trace the importance, strength and the effects of technological change on sectoral, occupational and inter-regional...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032859