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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality - A causal investigation

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...

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Residential responses to cyclones: New evidence from Australia

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis - 2024

relocation intentions and actual migration experiences show moderate increases, particularly in cases of higher cyclone severity … and actively seek coverage. Alongside long-distance domestic migration, insurance acquisition emerges as another … from cyclones as a key factor driving observed migration patterns. …

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Communication Barriers and Infant Health: Intergenerational Effects of Randomly Allocating Refugees Across Language Regions

Auer, Daniel; Kunz, Johannes S. - 2021

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large shares of French (or Italian) speakers for...

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The supply of foreign talent: How skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes S. - 2021

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...

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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...

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