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Human capital and earnings of female immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002

skill disadvantage of foreign-born women in the United States (relative to foreign-born women in Australia and Canada … than women to gain admission on the basis of immigration criteria related to labor market considerations rather than family … relationships. For this reason, we might expect that the stronger emphasis on skill-based admissions in Australia and Canada …

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Labor market effects of immigration : evidence from neighborhood data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias - 2011

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. -- international migration ; effects of immigration …

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Macroeconomic impacts of immigration in the Canadian Atlantic region : an empirical analysis using the Focus model

Dungan, Douglas Peter; Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley; … - 2023

We simulate the impact of an increase in immigration into the Atlantic provinces based on the FOCUS macro … immigration for the country as a whole. The positive outcome encompasses higher GDP and GDP per capita, higher consumption, and …

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Macroeconomic impacts of Canadian immigration : results from a macro-model

Dungan, Douglas Peter; Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley - 2012

. -- macroeconomic impact ; immigration ; FOCUS Model ; Canada … in immigration. Our simulations generally yield positive impacts on such factors as real GDP and GDP per capita …

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Immigration policy and the skills of immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

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What are migration networks?

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Managers' risk preferences and firm training investments

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of the impact of managers' risk preferences on their training allocation decisions. Our conceptual framework links managers' risk preferences to firms' training decisions through the bonuses they expect to receive. Risk-averse managers are expected to select...

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Depression, risk preferences and risk-taking behavior

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2019

Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk preferences and risk-taking behaviors. We are the first to address this issue using large-scale,...

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Risk preferences and training investments

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Obst, Cosima; … - 2020

We analyze workers' risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them...

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The risk and time preferences of young truants and their parents

Antrobus, Emma; Baranov, Victoria; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2017

We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing...

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