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The determinants of rural migrants' employment choice in China: Results from a joint estimation

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...

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Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira Lucero, Matias - 2013

This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the principal component analysis (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293123

Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2017

This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of...

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Immigrant over- and under-education: The role of home country labour market experience

Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in...

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Does immigration policy affect the education-occupation mismatch? Evidence from Australia

Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements about age, language ability, education, and work...

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Risk Attitudes and Migration

Akgüc, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2015

environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC data for China, we find that rural-urban migrants and their family …

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Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being

Tani, Massimiliano - 2015

inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, quantifying the cost of holding a rural hukou has … on China, this limitation can be overcome by exploiting exogenous changes in hukou status due to expropriation. The … the household heads. The results complement a growing literature on subjective well-being focusing on China. …

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Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330135

Childhood Adversity and Energy Poverty

Cheng, Zhiming; Guo, Liwen; Smyth, Russell; Tani, … - 2021

We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great …

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Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the Great Higher Education Expansion

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Wei, Yi; Zhu, Yu - 2022

China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999 …. Using the China Household Finance Survey, we show that the Great HE Expansion has exacerbated a large pre-existing urban …

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