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International business visits and the technology frontier
Dowrick, Steve (contributor); Tani, Massimiliano (contributor) - 2008
This paper studies the impact of international business trips on the stock of knowledge available to an economy. It develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for a panel of twelve Australian industries during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003684461
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Adjusting to skill shortages : complexity and consequences
Healy, Joshua; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2011
Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countries including the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about their prevalence, causes and consequences. This paper attempts to improve our understanding about these issues by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518429
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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level : the case of Italian manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - 2009
We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level (blue collars and white collars), Population Census information on the local stock of human capital available to firms and survey information on firm characteristics to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925289
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Assimilation via prices or quantities? : Labor market institutions and immigrant earnings growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001766989
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Emigration from the UK, 1870 - 1913 and 1950 - 1998
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001776070
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A couples-based approach to the problem of workless families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784325
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The health status of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Carroll, Nick (contributor) - 2005
in access to health services and in health behaviour. These issues need to be tackled before Australia can truly claim to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002693840
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Child poverty in English-speaking countries
Micklewright, John (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002000815
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Do migrants get good jobs? : New migrant settlement in Australia
Junankar, Pramod N. (contributor);  … - 2004
This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different … obtains on arrival in Australia. We provide alternative definitions of what is a good job in terms of objective and subjective … criteria. The paper uses two sets of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia data: the first cohort that arrived in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002529620
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Language skills and immigrant adjustment : what immigration policy can do!
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2004
Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in … Australia around five years apart. There are two special features of these data that provide the framework for analysis. First …, the visa class under which the immigrants entered Australia is known from administrative records. Second, between the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002520714