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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
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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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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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Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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