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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...
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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...
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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...
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in access to health services and in health behaviour. These issues need to be tackled before Australia can truly claim to …
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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 …
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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 …
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