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This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia … benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics … work experience. In contrast, foreign PhD graduates with a non-English speaking background experience worse labour market …
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This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia … benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics … work experience. In contrast, foreign PhD graduates with a non-English speaking background experience worse labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270214
foreign PhD graduates staying on in Australia as skilled migrants. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as … benefiting from positive employer 'discrimination' (a wage premium unrelated to observed characteristics such as gender, age, and … previous work experience). The premium is field-specific and applies to graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and …
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and employment participation. Empirical evidence favors the "efficiency" over the "discrimination" channels of wage …
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Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
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of eastern and western German PhD graduates who completed their dissertations between 1995 and 2010. We estimate the … PhD graduates and their place of birth collected from data on PhD dissertations in Germany with data from administrative … of eastern and western German PhD graduates. Our findings show that labor market success is affected neither by being …
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We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency …
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We study labor-market returns to vocational versus general secondary education using a regression discontinuity design created by the centralized admissions process in Finland. Admission to the vocational track increases annual income by 7 percent at age 31, and the benefits show no signs of...
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We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to education taking into account who the worker is (worker unobserved ability), what he does (the...
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China hosts the world's largest secondary education sector: more than 14 million adolescents enrol in secondary academic or vocational schools every year. Despite the large literature on returns to education, little evidence exists as to how these two streams compare in the country. Using 2013...
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