Does Immigration Policy Affect the Education-Occupation Mismatch? Evidence from Australia
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Keywords
over- and under-education; immigration policy; migration;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C34 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2012-10-27 (Education)
- NEP-MIG-2012-10-27 (Economics of Human Migration)
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