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Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps Throughout the Earnings Distribution

Phan, Van; Singleton, Carl; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; … - 2022

Ethnicity wage gaps in Great Britain are large and have persisted over time. Previous studies of these gaps have been almost exclusively confined to analyses of household data, so they could not account for the role played by individual employers, despite growing evidence of their wage-setting...

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Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages?

White, Michael R. - 2017

-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …

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Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants

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 estimators....

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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 … and skills than those expected from their educational qualifications. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to …

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

Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

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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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2012

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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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 … 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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Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?

Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2023

selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …

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The Gender Gap in Wages over the Life Course : Evidence from a British Cohort Born in 1958

Joshi, Heather - 2019

Using data tracking all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 through to their mid-50s we observe an inverse U-shaped gender wage gap (GWG) over their life-course: an initial gap in early adulthood widened substantially during childrearing years, affecting earnings in full-time...

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Are Women Doing it for Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap

Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2019

Using matched employer-employee data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS) for Britain we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around half that. However, the GWG declines substantially with...

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