ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons.

Autor/inn/en	Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W.
Titel	ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons.
Quelle	Bonn: Forschungsinst. zur Zukunft der Arbeit (2009), 38 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 4422
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Schätzung; Vergleich; Bildungsertrag; Einkommen; Lohndifferenzierung; Überqualifikation; Arbeitspapier; Einheimischer; Migrant; Australien; Kanada; USA
Abstract	This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008). This decomposition links overeducation to the less-than- perfect international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable selection and the limited international transferability of human capital to the lower payoff to schooling for the foreign born. The sensitivity of the results of the decomposition to several measurement issues is assessed.
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Update	2010/2