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The time women allocate to child care varies appreciably according to personal and labour market characteristics. Of … particular note is the finding that better educated women spend more time in most forms of child care activities than their less … possible justification for subsidising the education of women to a greater extent than the subsidy to men's education. It is …
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This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...
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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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