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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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selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …
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This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component …
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We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...
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This paper investigates to what extent the wealth accumulation of immigrants is explained by their degree of … assimilation, defined as the immigrants' capacity to become more similar over time to the local people in terms of their norms …
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influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late …-education, occupational downgrading, and (self-reported) use of skills for male immigrants, who account for about 75% of the sample, while … they have a modest short-term positive impact on female immigrants. These results support the view that migration policy is …
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