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Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …
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for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …
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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. …
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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. …
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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?...
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This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the …
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considered. The paper was prepared for the Productivity Commission of Australia. …
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This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant...
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Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in … Australia around five years apart. There are two special features of these data that provide the framework for analysis. First …, the visa class under which the immigrants entered Australia is known from administrative records. Second, between the two …
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This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants....
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