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ties to Mexico than with the fact that skill-based admissions are less important in the United States than in Australia and … Canada. …
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) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of …Canada?s restrictions on the role of private health insurance for publicly insured physician and hospital services are … unique among countries with universal, publicly funded health care systems. Pressure is mounting in Canada, however, to …
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We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...
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for Australia. We find that immigrants, particularly immigrant women, are more likely to be retired than are native …
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We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001-2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore suffered...
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skill disadvantage of foreign-born women in the United States (relative to foreign-born women in Australia and Canada … relationships. For this reason, we might expect that the stronger emphasis on skill-based admissions in Australia and Canada …
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Australia, Germany and the United States. Our results indicate that in Germany and the United States wealth differentials are … relatively small wealth gap between Australian- and foreign-born households exists because immigrants to Australia do not …
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status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …
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We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore...
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This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal...
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