Skilled migration has long been at the forefront of policies for engendering population and regional economic growth in developed nations like Australia. Indeed a rapid growth in the size of the skilled migrant intake during past thirty years has seen skilled migration visa numbers outstrip the combined permanent intake from other migration streams. The Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS...

In recent decades, many scholars have accentuated the role of occupations in social stratification and class analysis. Within occupations, workers compete to improve their labour positioning over time process, create unequal outcomes. Advancement better positions or improved wages can be dependent on individual factors such as tenure, skills, experience, effort. Yet, also allow relative advanta...

We analyse the following question associated with flexible outsourcing under partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, where skilled workers participate in a firm’s profit: First, how does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing and low-skilled wage and thus how does it affect employment? Second, how do the outsourcing costs affect the low-skilled wage? We show ...

• There were fears in the European Union that eastern enlargement would lead to major job losses and transfers. More recently, these fears have extended to high-skilled and IT jobs. This paper examines using unique firm-level data if these fears are justified for Austria and Germany. • We find that eastern enlargement has led to job losses of less than 0.5 percent of total employment in Germany...

This paper uses Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data linked to administrative track the educational and labour market outcomes of young people. Students with lower skills have rates participation in further education. While low-skilled men out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, earnings overtaken by those higher early 20s, earn around 15 per c...