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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 2010
Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...
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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010
use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …
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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - 2004
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261850
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003
Papps, Kerry L. - 2004
A number of authors have documented an increase in earnings or income inequality in New Zealand during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period of major economic reform, however no study has evaluated changes in inequality during the post-reform era. This paper applies a recently-developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262116
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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262141
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Immigration: The New Zealand Experience
Winkelmann, Rainer - 1999
A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 New Zealand Censuses are used to illustrate changes in the characteristics of immigrants, as well as labor outcomes. The decline in the income of recent immigrants over the...
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Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2008
The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the 'absorption capacity' of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical...
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A Structural Empirical Model of Firm Growth, Learning, and Survival
Abbring, Jaap H.; Campbell, Jeffrey R. - 2003
We present a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and consider its identification and estimation. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262756
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Making it work: The mixed embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs in New Zealand
Cain, Trudie; Spoonley, Paul - 2013
In seeking economic immigrants, especially those who are skilled, entrepreneurial and with capital to invest, a settler country such as New Zealand has assumed that national and city labour markets/economies will gain by adding to the human capital pool as well as creating new 'economic'...
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