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Marché du travail en revue - Septembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Selon de nombreuses recherches, il semble que les immigrants plus qualifiés, en particulier dans les domaines des sciences, de la technologie, de l’ingénierie et des mathématiques, sont non seulement plus innovateurs que leurs collègues nés au pays qui les a reçus, mais qu’ils ont...
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Immigrant Skill Selection and Utilization: A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Canada, and the United States
Clarke, Andrew; Skuterud, Mikal - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
We compare literacy test scores and relative wage and employment outcomes of Australian, Canadian and U.S. immigrants using the 2003/2006 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALLS). We find substantially higher immigrant skill levels at the lower end of the distribution in Australia,...
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Labour Market Matters - September 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
A growing body of research suggests that skilled immigrants, particularly those in the “STEM†fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), are not only more innovative than their native-born counterparts but also have the potential to produce positive productivity...
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Why do Immigrant Workers in Australia Perform Better than in Canada? Is it the Immigrants or their Labour Markets?
Clarke, Andrew; Skuterud, Mikal - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Research comparing the labour market performance of recent cohorts of immigrants to Australia and Canada points to superior employment and earnings outcomes in Australia. Examining Australian and Canadian Census data between 1986 and 2006, we find that this performance advantage is not driven by...
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Kenya, growth and structural change
Greene, David G. (contributor) - 1983
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Climate governance and development
Ansohn, Albrecht (contributor); Pleskovic, Boris (contributor) - Berlin Workshop <(11th :2008)> - 2010
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Closing the feedback loop : can technology bridge the accountability gap?
Gigler, Björn-Sören (ed.); Bailur, Savita (ed.) - World Bank - 2014
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Strengthening governance through engaged societies : lessons from the implementation of poverty reduction strategies
Sharkey, Katrina - 2006
discusses the factors which can facilitate the development of accountability and participatory governance mechanisms. Lessons … impact of participatory governance on policymaking, while emerging, is still a work in progress. The paper concludes with … recommendations for how developing country societies might sustain real achievements in participatory governance and domestic …
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Corruption and decentralized public governance
Shah, Anwar - 2006
"This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralized … local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is because localization helps to break the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522236
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Telecommunications performance, reforms, and governance
Manacorda, Marco - 2006
industrial and developing countries differently in some cases. The authors also find that governance plays an important role as …
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