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Severity of work disability and work
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture the feedback effect of past participation on current participation. The results suggest that net of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269710
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The effects of health and health shocks on hours worked
Cai, Lixin; Mavromaras, Kostas; Oguzoglu, Umut - 2008
We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to … persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the … first six waves of the HILDA survey to estimate the joint effect of health status and health shocks on working hours using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268873
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The economics of language: an introduction and overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268618
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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/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269488
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The immigrant-native born earnings gap in the US : a quantile regression analysis and international comparison
Chiswick, Barry R.; Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003302088