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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021

The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...

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Is there hope after despair? : an analysis of trust among China's Cultural Revolution survivors

Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Torgler, Benno - In: Economic modelling 121 (2023), pp. 1-12

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Is there hope after despair? : an analysis of trust among China's Cultural Revolution survivors

Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; Torgler, Benno - 2023

We study the long-term effects of the Cultural Revolution, characterised by widespread violence, summary executions and chaos, on a set of trust outcomes among people surveyed by the China Survey in 2008. We find that the revolution, identified by cohort-specific exposure to excess deaths at the...

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Using a point system for selecting immigrants : a point system can select economically desirable immigrants but it cannot prevente poor labor outcomes for immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...

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Selective immigration policies, occupational licensing, and the quality of migrants' education-occupation match

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants …. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the … address the under-use of migrants' human capital. …

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Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira Lucero, Matias - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 95 (2016), pp. 107-126

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Immigration policy and remittance behaviour

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …

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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2017

1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …

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Selective immigration, occupational licensing, and labour market outcomes of foreign-trained migrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

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Local signals and the returns to foreign education

Tani, Massimiliano - In: Economics of education review 61 (2017), pp. 174-190

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