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Student outcomes at university in Australia : a quantile regression approach
Birch, Elisa Rose; Miller, Paul W. - In: Australian economic papers 45 (2006) 1, pp. 1-17
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309170
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600
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How responsive is female labour supply to child care costs : new australian estimates
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert; King, Anthony - 2010
price. We find that the limited literature in Australia has suffered from measurement error problems stemming in large part … waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (covering the period 2005 to 2007) to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806453
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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates
Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
This paper presents an analysis of labour market dynamics, in particular of flows in the labour market and how they interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market performance. Our analysis has two special features. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360089
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Schooling, literacy, numeracy and labor market success
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A "general to specific"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406733
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Longitudinal analysis of immigrant occupational mobility : a test of the immigrant assimilation hypothesis
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical … includes data on pre-immigration occupation, the "first" occupation in Australia (at 6 months) and the occupation after about 3 ….5 years in Australia. The hypotheses are supported by the empirical analysis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406873
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Family matters : the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406913
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The determinants of the geographic concentration among immigrants : application to Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively … related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in … the country of origin and the place of residence in Australia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410657
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Immigrants' language skills and visa category
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410920
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Immigrants' language skills : the Australien experience in a longitudinal survey
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3 1/2 years after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411553