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Immigrant earnings: a longitudinal analysis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2005

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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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C.; … - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

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Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Robertson, John C. - 2005

This paper uses matched employer-employee data for the state of Georgia to examine workers’ earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector’s employment boom of the mid-1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for individual...

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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999

Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004

What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national Perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007

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A Cross-National Comparison of Education and Earnings

O'Connor, Inge - 1994

This paper attempts to bridge the gap between previous cross-national work estimating rates of return to education and the current trend toward examining rates over time. Changes in the returns to education in the 1980s over five countries were driven by different forces across the countries.

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Parliamentarians' expenses recent reforms: A briefing on Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and Brazil

Lemos, Leany Barreiro; Joseph, Rosara - 2010

In 2009, the Australian, Brazilian and UK parliaments faced strong criticism - to say the least - over the issue of parliamentarians' expenses. The uncovering of widespread misuses of public resources by parliamentarians in each of these three countries was the subject of intense media and...

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The economics of language: an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008

and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …

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Who benefits from the earned income tax credit? Incidence among recipients, coworkers and firms

Leigh, Andrew - 2010

How are hourly wages affected by the Earned Income Tax Credit? Using variation in state EITC supplements, I find that a 10 percent increase in the generosity of the EITC is associated with a 5 percent fall in the wages of high school dropouts and a 2 percent fall in the wages of those with only...

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