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Purpose – To investigate the extent of over-education for recently arrived tertiary educated male immigrants in order … to ascertain if higher educated immigrants face assimilation hurdles in the Australian labour market. Design … investment. Findings – It is found that English speaking background (ESB) immigrants to have similar rates of over …
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Purpose – To investigate the extent of over‐education for recently arrived tertiary educated male immigrants in order … to ascertain if higher educated immigrants face assimilation hurdles in the Australian labour market. Design … investment. Findings – It is found that English speaking background (ESB) immigrants to have similar rates of over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863141
study show that on average native Jews attain the best economic outcomes, followed by FSU immigrants, Israeli Arabs and … finally Ethiopian immigrants. Education and experience appear to have a strong effect on earnings in the long run. An ethnic … first time that the Ethiopian immigrants where taken into account.  …
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Economists of the Public Choice School have argued that compensation payments to victims of crime will increase the crime rate. This proposition is examined by estimating crime supply functions for rape and aggravated assault in which the expected probability and magnitude of compensation...
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between the various dimensions of the welfare cost of crime and violence available in the literature. Design … and violence within this unified framework. This theoretical benchmark is then used as a benchmark to review the empirical … dimensions of welfare cost of crime and violence that have been presented in the literature.  …
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Outlines the problem of emancipation (not only of married women) as a problem of economic order, and the historical setting of family and government. Discusses economics of the family, economic order and public finance. Concludes, with special reference to The Netherlands, that incremental...
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Purpose – Focussing on the historical experience, the purpose of this paper is to argue the need for change in the design and implementation of social policies in order to overcome the stalemate of the last two or three decades. Design/methodology/approach – Starting with the social measures...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the work of Bismarck in relation to social legislation. Design/methodology/approach – Bismarck's points of views are sketched mainly through quotations from his speeches in Parliament. His position regarding social protection is discussed and...
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Presents a paper by Lauchlin Currie on the stabilization of purchasing power through the use of public credit which was originally delivered at the American Economic Association Meeting at Chicago Distribution of Purchasing Power and Business Fluctuations Round Table on December 30, 1936.
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Presents Lauchlin Currie' views on the monetary aspects of the excess reserves problem which he gave at a board meeting on May 18, 1936.
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