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The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents

Redmond, Paul - 2020

worked of lone parents of between two and five hours per week. Two and a half years following the reform, lone parents …

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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C. - 2021

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … at least for Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general … patterns of overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be …

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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

Choi, Kate - 2011

status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …

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Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes : Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates

Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2010

The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...

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Overeducation in Europe : Trends, Convergence and Drivers

McGuinness, Seamus - 2017

This paper examines patterns in overeducation between countries using a specifically designed panel dataset constructed from the quarterly Labour Force Surveys of 28 EU countries over a twelve to fifteen year period. It is not the case that overeducation has been rising rapidly over time in all...

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Examining the Relationships between Labour Market Mismatches, Earnings and Job Satisfaction Among Immigrant Graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Seamus - 2014

This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...

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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe : A Wage Decomposition Approach

McGuinness, Seamus - 2016

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...

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The Gender Wage Gap in Europe : Job Preferences, Gender Convergence and Distributional Effects

McGuinness, Seamus - 2017

The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show that the degree of gender convergence differs across countries in Europe. Most, if not all, of the...

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Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, Maria Ángeles - 2016

This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and several institutional and macroeconomic features...

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Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …

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