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The Determinants of Rural Migrants' Employment Choice in China: Results from a Joint Estimation
Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises … indicate that the choice of employment is positively related to unobserved determinants of migration. This result implies that … estimating employment choices without controlling for migration status leads to biased estimates. Most rural migrants appear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734756
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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 … indicate that the choice of employment is positively related to unobserved determinants of migration. This result implies that … estimating employment choices without controlling for migration status leads to biased estimates. Most rural migrants appear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289933
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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 … indicate that the choice of employment is positively related to unobserved determinants of migration. This result implies that … estimating employment choices without controlling for migration status leads to biased estimates. Most rural migrants appear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656605
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The Determinants of Rural Migrants' Employment Choice in China : Results from a Joint Estimation
Nahm, Daehoon - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises … indicate that the choice of employment is positively related to unobserved determinants of migration. This result implies that … estimating employment choices without controlling for migration status leads to biased estimates. Most rural migrants appear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098453
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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021
. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … that ethnic identity is strongly associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431900
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Does It pay to graduate from an "elite" university in Australia?
Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
In Australia, the so-called Group of Eight (Go8) universities have lower student-to-staff ratios, better qualified staff, superior research outcomes, and generally better placement in university rankings compared to non-Go8 universities. They are also typically the most competitive universities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845793
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Returns to university quality in Australia : a two-stage analysis
Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408871
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Skilled immigrants' contribution to productive efficiency
Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381869
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English skills and early labour market integration of humanitarian migrants
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020
speaking skills has been the least improved domain for humanitarian migrants' who have participated in an English training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293794
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Using a point system for selecting immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764643