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-than-perfect international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
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religious and racial intolerance and discrimination relative to other immigrants. Further, I do not find evidence that after 9 …I examine whether after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslim immigrants and immigrants who fit the Muslim … Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to …
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We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and...
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destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency,(3) the consequences for immigrants of …
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immigrants who arrived between 2000 and 2011 when there was a major focus on skills selection. 67% of these immigrants were … education and English proficiency. Primary skilled immigrants and their spouses have higher rates of labour force participation …
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penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …) that are crucial in overeducation analysis. First, we find that immigrants have significantly higher incidence rates of …
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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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This paper analyzes changes in wage differentials between white men and white women over the period 1993-2006 across the entire wage distribution using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. We decompose distributional changes in the gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed...
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We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning distribution for full-time employees in the Australian private sector. Significant evidence of a self selection effect for women into full-time employment (or of components of self...
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In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained different gender wage gaps but rather the rewards for these...
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