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On the risk of unemployment: a comparative assessment of the labour market success of migrants in Australia
Thapa, Prem J. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 7 (2004) 2, pp. 199-229
This paper analyses the ‘risk’ of unemployment of male immigrants to Australia relative to the native born using Wave 1 of HILDA. It exploits the more detailed information in HILDA on individual and parental characteristics that affect labour market outcomes than has been used in previous...
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Street Level Leniency or Unjust Inconsistency? An Examination of Brach Recommendation Decision Making in a for profit Job Network Agency
Bigby, Christine; Files, William - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 6 (2003) 2, pp. 277-291
The Howard government’s Mutual Obligation reforms have placed greater requirements on job seekers, increased compliance monitoring and imposed harsher penalties for failure. Under the restructured employment service, the Job Network, non government for profit and not for profit organizations...
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Withdrawal from employment of older Finnish workers
Huovinen, Pasi; Piekkola, Hannu - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 4, 4, pp. 336-355
This paper contains an empirical analysis of gross job flows in Finland and of the factors that explain the extensive withdrawal of older workers from employment in the 1990s in Finland. Job flows are characterised in terms of employee age and education. The outflow of workers from employment...
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An Examination of Net Flows in the Australian Labour Market
Dixon, Robert; Freebairn, John; Lim, Guay - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 1, pp. 25-42
In this paper we investigate the behaviour of net flows of persons between employment, unemployment and not in the labour force in Australia between 1979-2003 and the relationship of these flows to changes in the unemployment rate over that period. We find that: flows from unemployment to...
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The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants’ Integration : Does the Duration of Training Matter?
Pont-Grau, Alex; Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Lim, Joel Z. E.; Xia, Xing - 2021
. We examine whether the intensity of training, in terms of duration, increases the likelihood of integration, particularly …
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How long and how much? : learning about the design of wage subsidies from policy discontinuities
Sjögren, Anna; Vikström, Johan - 2013
-policy allow us to study effects of both subsidy rate and subsidy duration. We find that doubling of the subsidy rate has a … substantial impact on job finding rates but that doubled subsidy duration has no such effect. We find the opposite pattern when we … positive employment effect of doubling the subsidy duration persists after the expiry of the employment subsidies. …
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The duration of the school-to-work transition in Italy and in other European countries: a flexible baseline hazard interpretation
Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2021
the hypothesis of positive duration dependence at the beginning of the transition and slightly negative thereafter … shortening the transition. Originality: Despite the duration of the STWT is one of the most important indicators to measure the …-linear duration dependence. Furthermore, they extend the analysis by including student-workers who attended a vocational path of …
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Workers Without Rights
Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale - 2016
The informal economy produces legal goods and services that are not effectively regulated. Such activities can give rise to abuses by employers who fail to respect basic labor, safety, immigration, and tax laws, leaving workers without rights. By definition the informal economy is hidden...
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Sinking Underground : The Growing Informal Economy in California Construction
Liu, Yvonne Yen - 2016
An analysis of California's construction industry found that 143,900 construction workers were employed in the informal economy in 2011. This was comprised of 104,100 construction workers who were not reported by their employers and 39,800 who were misclassified as independent...
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Los Angeles Rising : A City that Works for Everyone
Flaming, Daniel - 2016
For many, Los Angeles evokes images of year-round sunshine and celebrity, a dream city of wealth and possibility. Yet in reality, half of L.A. residents living in poverty are employed, showing that low wages drive poverty as much as unemployment does. The benefits and consequences of raising Los...
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