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The labour market for native and international PhD students : similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...

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Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?

Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2023

This paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home...

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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

difference-in-differences estimator using rural students to control for common time trends. We find that the Great HE raised … interpreted as the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) of education on earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE only … the 2SLS returns for students from more disadvantaged backgrounds are at least as high as their more advantaged …

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Returns to University Quality in Australia : A Two-Stage Analysis

Carroll, David - 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...

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Local Signals and the Returns to Foreign Education

Tani, Massimiliano - 2016

This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor schooling quality in the country of education or employers' discrimination in the host country. The quasi-experiment is the possibility for migrants to undertake an official...

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The Wage Premium of Foreign Education : New Evidence from Australia

Chan, Gavin - 2012

We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...

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

Cui, Yuling - 2013

This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China's economy between 1995 and 2008. Using data from CHIP and RUMiC, we find that rural migrants' earning differentials with urban residents are substantial and mainly depend on the type of...

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