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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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days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and …
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This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...
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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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Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to …
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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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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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samples for two different countries – Australia (the HILDA Survey) and the UK (the UK Household Longitudinal Study) – are used …
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Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained … comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …
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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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