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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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We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
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The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a …
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voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered … times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia. Between 1853-7 and 1909-13 the voyage time … times are explained with a focus on the relative efficiency of sail and steam and (for Australia) the use of the Suez Canal …
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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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influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …
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Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
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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 … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in …
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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation … are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …
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