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Mbaye, Linguère; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022

We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …

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Selective immigration policies, occupational licensing, and the quality of migrants’ education-occupation match

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world’s largest selective immigration programmes, and applies both cross-sectional and panel...

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The labour market for native and international PhD students: similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...

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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship

Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022

We examine the causal effect of air pollution on an individual's propensity for entrepreneurship in China. Our preferred model, which employs an instrumental variable approach to address endogeneity arising from sorting into entrepreneurship and locational choices, suggests that exposure to...

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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship

Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022

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Immigrant Over- and Under-Education : The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience

Piracha, Matloob - 2010

The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in the home country in jobs below their education...

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Labour Market Under-Utilisation of Recent Higher Education Graduates : New Australian Panel Evidence

Carroll, David - 2011

Recent research into the Australian labour market has reported that a substantial proportion of the tertiary-educated labour force is under-utilised relative to their level of education, echoing findings from an expanding international literature. This paper uses recent panel data from the 2010...

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Does Immigration Policy Affect the Education-Occupation Mismatch? Evidence from Australia

Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements about age, language ability, education, and work...

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The Wage Premium of Foreign Education : New Evidence from Australia

Chan, Gavin - 2012

We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...

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Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008

Cui, Yuling - 2013

This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China's economy between 1995 and 2008. Using data from CHIP and RUMiC, we find that rural migrants' earning differentials with urban residents are substantial and mainly depend on the type of...

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