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newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers …
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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 estimators....
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to document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more …-of-work immigrants could find jobs fell relative to the native job-finding rate. A small part of the relative increase in the immigrant … rate of job loss arises because immigrants were less likely to work in jobs that could be performed remotely and suffered …
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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 … and skills than those expected from their educational qualifications. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to …
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proportion of immigrants that were already under-utilised (or over-achieving) in their home countries. Overall, the policy … appears to have brought immigrants that reduced the over-under-education of Australia's labour market …
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...
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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 … immigrants from non-OECD countries are the ones who can gain the most from obtaining further education in Australia, and that …
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selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …
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We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...
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differences between self- and paid employment among rural immigrants. We interpret the relevant effect of discrimination in 2002 … unemployment. The empirical analysis confirms that self-employment also attracts married individuals and those in good health … predominantly arise through differences in coefficients (i.e. "discrimination") while those between self- and paid employment among …
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