Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a …

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the middle … income trap as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle … income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …

Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …

for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …

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. …

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. …

In Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia, Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …