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The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents

Redmond, Paul - 2020

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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Immigrant Over- and Under-Education : The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience

Piracha, Matloob - 2010

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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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce - 2011

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

Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

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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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

McGuinness, Seamus - 2012

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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A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University‐Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : Does Policy Matter?

Clarke, Andrew James - 2018

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …

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Perceptions and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Australia after 9/11

Goel, Deepti - 2009

Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to …

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Overskilling Dynamics and Education Pathways

Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2009

This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...

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Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment

Cahuc, Pierre - 2020

In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employmentrate of apprentices is about 15 percentage points higher than that of vocational students.Despite this difference, this paper shows that there is almost no difference between theprobability of getting a...

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Labour Market Dynamics in Australia : What Drives Unemployment?

Karanassou, Marika - 2009

The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … area which is particularly relevant for Australia. This paper attempts to fill this void by estimating a multi …

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