Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from Australia
We examine the occupational attainment of recent immigrants at 2 yearspost migration in order to study their early stage assimilation into thelabour market in Australia. Human capital endowments and country-oforigineffects are examined for six occupational groups. We also studytransitions across occ...
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| author | Kostenko, W. Harris, Mark Zhao, X. |
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| description | We examine the occupational attainment of recent immigrants at 2 yearspost migration in order to study their early stage assimilation into thelabour market in Australia. Human capital endowments and country-oforigineffects are examined for six occupational groups. We also studytransitions across occupations from source to host country. The empiricalapproach utilizes the Ordered Generalized Extreme Value (OGEV) modelwhich embodies differing utility functions across occupational outcomes,as well as accounting for any ordering in these outcomes. The resultssuggest that the transferability of knowledge and skills is affected bycultural and social backgrounds, and that non-Western immigrants aredisproportionately channelled into inferior jobs post migration. Theinvestigation of the country-of-origin effect on the skilled migrants’occupational transition process is especially apt in the context of skillshortages in many host countries. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-466762019-02-19T04:26:27Z Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from Australia Kostenko, W. Harris, Mark Zhao, X. ordered discrete data immigrant labour market outcomes occupational assimilation ordered generalised extreme value model We examine the occupational attainment of recent immigrants at 2 yearspost migration in order to study their early stage assimilation into thelabour market in Australia. Human capital endowments and country-oforigineffects are examined for six occupational groups. We also studytransitions across occupations from source to host country. The empiricalapproach utilizes the Ordered Generalized Extreme Value (OGEV) modelwhich embodies differing utility functions across occupational outcomes,as well as accounting for any ordering in these outcomes. The resultssuggest that the transferability of knowledge and skills is affected bycultural and social backgrounds, and that non-Western immigrants aredisproportionately channelled into inferior jobs post migration. Theinvestigation of the country-of-origin effect on the skilled migrants’occupational transition process is especially apt in the context of skillshortages in many host countries. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46676 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036846.2011.587774 Taylor & Francis restricted |
| spellingShingle | ordered discrete data immigrant labour market outcomes occupational assimilation ordered generalised extreme value model Kostenko, W. Harris, Mark Zhao, X. Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from Australia |
| title | Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from Australia |
| title_full | Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from Australia |
| title_fullStr | Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from Australia |
| title_short | Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from Australia |
| title_sort | occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from australia |
| topic | ordered discrete data immigrant labour market outcomes occupational assimilation ordered generalised extreme value model |
| url | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036846.2011.587774 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46676 |