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Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262795
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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261596
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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262267
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Job Mobility along the Technological Ladder : A Case Study of Australia
Kapuscinski, Cezary A.; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Meng, Xin - 2004
Labour economists have been increasingly interested in the impact of technological change upon employment and unemployment. However, the predominant focus of empirical studies has been on employment and unemployment stocks, whereas technological change is more likely to affect the flows of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261917
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Overskilling, job insecurity and career mobility
McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark - 2007
This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling - the extent to which work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268360
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Climbing the job ladder: New evidence of gender inequity
Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011
An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to 'climb the job ladder.' However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. Focusing on a subsample of younger, university-educated workers from an Australian longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280734
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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262738
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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262780
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The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262788
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Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A ?general to specific?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262797