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This paper examines the influence of family human capital on offspring's economic status in post reform rural China by concentrating on the father-son relationship. We focus on two indicators of family background: family class origin (jiating chengfen) and occupational experience. The results of...
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with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany …
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The central research question addressed in this paper is how receipt of income support payments affects the well-being of youths. Using 1997-2004 panel data from a nationally representative survey of Australian youths, we attempt to estimate the size of the welfare stigma faced by Australian...
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Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a …
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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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Australia, Germany and the United States. Our results indicate that in Germany and the United States wealth differentials are … relatively small wealth gap between Australian- and foreign-born households exists because immigrants to Australia do not …
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Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …
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for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …
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concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively … related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in … the country of origin and the place of residence in Australia. …
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tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical … includes data on pre-immigration occupation, the ?first? occupation in Australia (at 6 months) and the occupation after about 3 ….5 years in Australia. The hypotheses are supported by the empirical analysis. …
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