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Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants have higher levels of English fluency …, education (relative to native-born women), and income (relative to native-born women) than do U.S. female immigrants. A … immigrants from Latin America than do the other two countries. Similar to previous findings for male immigrants, the apparent …
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This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency …, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily … because the United States receives a much larger share of immigrants from Latin America than do the other two countries. After …
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This paper examines the post-migration investments in schooling and job search of immigrant families using new longitudinal data for Australia. Higher education levels at time of arrival are associated with a greater probability of enrolling in school after migration. In households where the...
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levels, single immigrants have a wealth advantage of almost $185,000 relative to single native-born individuals. Although the …
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We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in explaining relative wages. We find that,...
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2001-2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly …
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The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes...
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immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men?s unemployment rates … achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily from the belief that skill-based immigrants do … better in some sense and provide greater economic benefits than immigrants admitted on the basis of their family …
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