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Immigration: High Skilled vs. Low Skilled Labor?

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2011

considered. The paper was prepared for the Productivity Commission of Australia. …

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Immigrant over- and under-education: The role of home country labour market experience

Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

. We use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia and find that having been over-educated in the last job held in … the home country increases the likelihood of being over-educated in Australia by about 45 percent. Whereas having been … in Australia by 62 percent. …

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Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2004

immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men?s unemployment rates …

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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2001

The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes...

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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

ties to Mexico than with the fact that skill-based admissions are less important in the United States than in Australia and …

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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002

skill disadvantage of foreign-born women in the United States (relative to foreign-born women in Australia and Canada … relationships. For this reason, we might expect that the stronger emphasis on skill-based admissions in Australia and Canada …

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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 …

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Occupational attainment and immigrant economic progress in Australia

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2008

immigrant selection regimes (primarily family reunion in the US, skill-based immigration in Australia) do not impact on the …

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268618

Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tan, Michelle - 2009

This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...

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