TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Chiswick, Barry R.
AU  - Miller, Paul W.
        TI  - ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
        PY  - 2009/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4422
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4422
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - selectivity
KW  - rates of return
KW  - earnings
KW  - occupations
KW  - schooling
KW  - immigrants
KW  - skill transferability
KW  - ORU analysis
        ER  -