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Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2004

selection policy can facilitate employment outcomes for new arrivals over the medium run. The results indicate that the … immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men?s unemployment rates … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women?s unemployment rates are driven …

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Immigrant wage and employment assimilation: A comparison of methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - 2012

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …

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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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A comparative analysis of the nativity wealth gap

Bauer, Thomas K.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, … - 2007

Australia, Germany and the United States. Our results indicate that in Germany and the United States wealth differentials are …

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical … their future outcomes are determined by external factors have lower reservation wages. …

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The Job Search and Education Investments of Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Connolly, Marie D.; Worswick, … - 2001

This paper examines the post-migration investments in schooling and job search of immigrant families using new longitudinal data for Australia. Higher education levels at time of arrival are associated with a greater probability of enrolling in school after migration. In households where the...

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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2001

The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes...

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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education (relative to native-born women), and income (relative to native-born women) than do U.S. female immigrants. A prominent explanation for this skill deficit of U.S....

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The asset portfolios of native-born and foreign-born households

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - 2008

This paper analyses the net worth and asset portfolios of native- and foreign-born Australian families using HILDA (wave 2) data. Specifically, we estimate a system of asset equations with an adding-up constraint imposed to control for variation in households' total net worth. Our results...

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Emigration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steven - 2008

This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from the host country to their country of origin. We develop a simple theoretical model to illustrate that under reasonable conditions the probability of return migration is...

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