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Does educational mismatch affect emigration behaviour?

Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2021

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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The wrong kind of AI? : artificial intelligence and the future of labor demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which humans can be productively employed. Recent technological...

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Automation and new tasks : how technology displaces and reinstates labor

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of...

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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...

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The wage premium of foreign education : new evidence from Australia

Chan, Gavin; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 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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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 … work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further … that ethnic identity is strongly associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …

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The gender pay gap in the CEOs' labor market

Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022

We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...

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