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This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced from 18 years to 7 years. Lone parents who no longer qualified for the payment, based on the age...
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Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …
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This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...
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Australia we show that a significant part of the variation in the immigrants' probability to be over-/under-educated in the …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants …-education among women, enhanced the relevance of being educated in Australia to be correctly matched, and attracted a higher … appears to have brought immigrants that reduced the over-under-education of Australia's labour market …
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This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...
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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …
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Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to …
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