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Do selection criteria make a difference? : Visa category and the labour market status of immigrants to Australia

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: The economic record : er 76 (2000), pp. 15-31

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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

than women to gain admission on the basis of immigration criteria related to labor market considerations rather than family … female immigration flows. Therefore, our findings of similar patterns for men and women and of the key role played by … national origin both suggest that factors other than immigration policy per se are important contributors to the observed skill …

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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

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...

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A comparative static model of the relationship between immigration and the job prospects of unemployment residents

Chapman, Bruce James; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 1998

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Public policy and the labor market adjustment of new immigrants to Australia

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2002

dramatically. The results indicate that changes in immigration policy may have led to increased human capital endowments that in …

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The wealth and asset holdings of US-born and foreign-born housholds : evidence from SIPP data

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - 2002

SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U.S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times that of foreign-born singles. Further, there...

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