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Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement : The Role of Institutions

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...

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Childcare Use and Its Role in Indigenous Child Development : Evidence from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children in Australia

Azpitarte, Francisco - 2016

This paper investigates patterns of childcare use and their influence on the cognitive development of Indigenous children. The influence of childcare on the cognitive outcomes of Indigenous children is less well understood than for non-Indigenous children due to a lack of appropriate data. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977725

Understanding Changes in Progressivity and Redistributive Effects : The Role of Tax-Transfer Policies and Labour Supply Decisions

Herault, Nicolas - 2013

In this paper we propose a framework to study changes in the redistributive consequences of income taxes and transfers …

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How Income Mobility and Income Growth Explain Income Inequality Trends

Herault, Nicolas - 2015

Jenkins and Van Kerm (2006) show how income inequality trends can be explained by income mobility and the equalising … effect of panel-income changes. This paper extends their framework to show explicitly how the distributional effect of panel-income … changes depends on the respective size and distribution of income gains and losses. An application to US data illustrates the …

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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation : A Comparison of Methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2012

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001 - 2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on crosssectional data and have therefore suffered...

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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013

This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...

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When General Skills Are Not Enough : The Influence of Recent Shifts in Australian Skilled Migration Policy on Migrant Employment Outcomes

van de Ven, Justin; Voitchovsky, Sarah; Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2014

Although many countries are now using skilled migration to offset declining fertility and increased longevity, there is thin empirical evidence concerning the effects of alternative approaches to managing the skilled migrant intake. This study focuses on the effects on migrant labour market...

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Literature Review on the Impact of Welfare Policy Design on Children and Youth

Broadway, Barbara - 2020

We review the empirical literature on the causal effects of welfare-to-work policies on the employment of low-income … family income, time spent with parents, and attitudes towards work or welfare. To unpack these mechanisms and understand the … institutional settings. Overall, the literature shows that income tax credits are an attractive policy, simultaneously increasing …

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The Stress Cost of Children

Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2015

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...

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Parental Responses to Children’s Achievement Test Results

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ho, Tiffany; Salamanca, Nicolas - 2021

We use quasi-experimental variation in the timing of national standardized test-score reports to estimate the causal impact of giving parents objective information about children’s academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more modest perceptions of academic achievement and reduced...

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