Massimiliano Tani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Massimiliano Tani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Massimiliano |
| FAMILY NAME | Tani |
| SIGNATURE | TANI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7642-8343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The ‘Healthy Migrant Effect’ and Ageing: Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy of the Migrant and Native-born Populations in Australia
How health status changes as migrants age and become to their host country remains underexplored. This study investigates two key indicators—life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE)—among migrants in Australia using nationally representative secondary data, including census-based Estimated Resident Population, 1% Census sample, and mortality statistics. LE refers to the average number of years a person is expected to live, while HLE…
Urban food insecurity and its determinants among migrant households
This study utilized the Linear Probability Model to examine the determinants of food insecurity among migrant households in the Gauteng City region of South Africa. 13,616 households were selected using random sampling and a cross‐section design. The study findings showed that age and level of education reduce the probability of skipping a meal among internal and international migrant households. Having medical aid is negatively associated with f…
Transcending Multidimensional Poverty Classes in Urban Developing Municipalities
The study draws on the multidimensional poverty index to characterize the poverty status of households in the Gauteng City Region, South Africa. In particular, it applies multinomial logit regression and mediation analysis to determine the factors influencing the transition of poor and vulnerable households into the multidimensionally nonpoor category. Data was obtained from the 2020/2021 Quality of Life Survey on 13,616 households in seven Gaute…
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment
We investigate the effects of ‘lecture‐based’ (LBT)—i.e. individual work and rote learning—vs. ‘discussion‐based’ (DBT)—i.e. participative and focused on student‐centred learning—teaching styles on the test scores and socio‐economic inequality of middle‐school students randomly assigned to classes using data from the China Education Panel Survey—a large‐scale nationally representative survey. Estimates from unconditional quantile regressions and …
Towards the Next Fifty Years of Social Indicators Research: Some Guidance for Authors
Do immigrants ever oppose immigration
This paper analyzes immigrants' views about immigration, contributing to the behavioral literature on the subject. In particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in the absence of stringent immigration policies and the large amount of undocumented immigration. We test this hypothesis using US data from the seventh wave of the World Value Survey, finding that successful immigrants…
Labour Mobility and Innovation in Africa
We investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product or process through the help of a theoretical model, and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on African countries using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey. We find that labour mobility positively affects innovation, especially for products and services, supporting its use as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge and …
Changing impact of Covid-19 on life expectancy 2019–2023 and its decomposition: Findings from 27 countries
The pandemic has caused substantial short-term mortality variations during 2019-2023 in the 27 countries studied. Although most of the 27 countries experienced increased life expectancy after 2022, life expectancy in 22 countries still has not entirely regained its pre-pandemic level by May 2023. Threats of COVID-19 are more prominent for older adults and men, but special attention is needed for women aged 85+ years
Nativity in the healthy migrant effect: Evidence from Australia
Migrant health constitutes an important public health issue; however, variations in the 'healthy migrant effect' among migrants of different nativity are not adequately understood. To fill this gap, this study examines the life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE) of the Australian-born population and eight major migrant groups in Australia for 2006, 2011 and 2016. The results show that compared with the Australian-born population, t…
The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries
The restrictions on labor mobility imposed in the COVID-19 pandemic heighten the need to review in detail the role of mobility in improving productivity and fostering economic growth. In this study, we carry out a comprehensive analysis of business visits (BVs) understood as a productivity-enhancing intrapreneurial strategy, using the most extensive set of data available, covering 33 sectors and 14 countries during the period 1998–2013. Our datab…
Decomposing the differences in healthy life expectancy between migrants and natives: The ‘healthy migrant effect’ and its age variations in Australia
Opportunities and challenges of using workforce big data: Insights from a mixed methods study on flexible working
This Practice and Policy paper presents reflections on the opportunities and challenges of using a novel big data set, Microsoft 365 digital activity records, in a mixed method study of flexible working. Our experience identified methodological and ethical considerations for practitioners and researchers in public sector workforce analytics. The benefits include data captured in situ and over time for all employees. The limitations reflect the in…
Public servants working from home during the pandemic: Who gained and who lost
Employees experienced both advantages and disadvantages while working from home during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Researchers have examined these impacts on women and those with caring responsibilities; however, little research has examined the impacts on other groups of employees, such as those with a disability or employed on a casual basis. In this article, we focus on the public sector and examine who gained and who lost while working from home, …
Migrants’ Skills Wastage in the Labor Market: A Multidisciplinary Approach for Policy Formation
Projections of Future Demand and Costs of Aged Care Services in China
Refugees as Skilled Migrants: Insights from Australia's 2018 Employer-Sponsored Refugee Migration Pilot
Many of the more than 27 million refugees in the world today are highly educated professionals, but resolving their displacement via skilled migration pathways is typically not possible. At the request of employers facing severe skill shortages and the coordination of Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB)-a non-profit organisation-the Australian government introduced in 2018 a pilot program enabling employers to sponsor refugees through an employment co…
Does Certifying Foreign Qualifications Lead to Better Immigrant Skills Utilization
Using a novel panel dataset on recent immigrants in Switzerland, we study the relationship between the degree of skills utilization, the foreign-acquired education and its certification in the host country. We find that the relationship with foreign education is negative, especially when acquired in a non-EU country, in line with the literature documenting the imperfect international transferability of human capital. Obtaining a 'Certificate of E…
Can videos affect learning outcomes? Evidence from an actual learning environment
We examine the effect of an innovation in an educational context, a class of 500 + first-year economics students at a well-known Australian university. We study whether introducing content in the form of a multimedia presentation has a detectable effect on specific categories of student knowledge. The multimedia presentation has a narrator presenting concepts with images, words, and worked examples. Our key outcome measure is the probability of a…
Social assimilation and immigrants’ labour market outcomes
We analyse how immigrants’ level of social assimilation is related to their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the association between assimilation and employment, wages, underemployment, three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. Using Australian longitudinal data, we find that assimilation is strongly associated with employment and wages as well as a number of job satisfaction measures. We then split our data …
Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing
Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare: Mental health in the time of Covid-19 in the UK
The importance of social supports in education: Survey findings from students with disability and their families during Covid-19
Emergency situations such as pandemics typically widen inequities, and Australian children and young people with disability already face significant inequities in the education system. In this paper we draw on survey data from over 700 respondents exploring education experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many families reported being left behind, finding it difficult to access education remotely, and that this was having a significant impact o…
Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour
This paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers. In turn, migrants’ decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that undereducation is positively associated with the probability of emigration and return to the count…
Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during Covid ‐19
Individualized funding schemes are designed to offer people with disability greater choice and control over the services they receive. In this research, we report on a survey of over 700 families to explore how Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) supported children and young people and their families to learn remotely during COVID‐19. NDIS funding to support education during the first COVID‐19 lockdown period forms an importan…
English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia
This paper uses panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationship between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. We show that having better general or speaking skills in English is associated with a higher propensity for participation in the labour force and success in getting a job. We also find that participating in an English training programme is strongly and positi…
Immigrant over- and under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience
Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration. We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in explaining immigrant mismatch in the destination country's labour market. We use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia and find that having been …
Immigration and Inter‐Regional Mobility in the UK, 1982–2000
Most studies that look across local labour markets have found the effects of immigration to be benign. One possibility is that immigrants to a specific area simply push non-immigrants onwards elsewhere, thereby diffusing the labour market effects, Examining net internal migration between 11 regions of Britain over two decades, we find consistently negative displacement effects but their magnitude and significance varies. The effects are somewhat …
Towards the Next Fifty Years of Social Indicators Research: Some Guidance for Authors
Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance
Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being in China
Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing
English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia
This paper uses panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationship between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. We show that having better general or speaking skills in English is associated with a higher propensity for participation in the labour force and success in getting a job. We also find that participating in an English training programme is strongly and positi…
Social assimilation and immigrants’ labour market outcomes
We analyse how immigrants’ level of social assimilation is related to their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the association between assimilation and employment, wages, underemployment, three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. Using Australian longitudinal data, we find that assimilation is strongly associated with employment and wages as well as a number of job satisfaction measures. We then split our data …
Migration Policy and Immigrants’ Labor Market Performance
This article studies whether migration policy is a suitable tool to improve the inefficient use of immigrants’ human capital. This line of investigation complements the traditional analysis of migration policy as a tool to manage labor supply. The effect of migration policy is studied, using a policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s that tightened the selection applied to certain economic immigrants. The empirical analysis, bas…
Refugees as Skilled Migrants: Insights from Australia's 2018 Employer-Sponsored Refugee Migration Pilot
Many of the more than 27 million refugees in the world today are highly educated professionals, but resolving their displacement via skilled migration pathways is typically not possible. At the request of employers facing severe skill shortages and the coordination of Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB)-a non-profit organisation-the Australian government introduced in 2018 a pilot program enabling employers to sponsor refugees through an employment co…
Does Certifying Foreign Qualifications Lead to Better Immigrant Skills Utilization
Using a novel panel dataset on recent immigrants in Switzerland, we study the relationship between the degree of skills utilization, the foreign-acquired education and its certification in the host country. We find that the relationship with foreign education is negative, especially when acquired in a non-EU country, in line with the literature documenting the imperfect international transferability of human capital. Obtaining a 'Certificate of E…
Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour
This paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers. In turn, migrants’ decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that undereducation is positively associated with the probability of emigration and return to the count…
Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during Covid ‐19
Individualized funding schemes are designed to offer people with disability greater choice and control over the services they receive. In this research, we report on a survey of over 700 families to explore how Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) supported children and young people and their families to learn remotely during COVID‐19. NDIS funding to support education during the first COVID‐19 lockdown period forms an importan…
Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity
Short‐Term Skilled Labour Movements and Economic Growth
Economic models typically study the long‐term effects of migration, and hence emphasise their impact on a country’s endowment of skills using net migration rates. This approach however does not take into account the contribution of short‐term movements of skilled labour on a country’s stock of knowledge and ability to innovate. This paper develops a theoretical approach to extend the analysis to gross migration flows, which captures the volume of…
Transcending Multidimensional Poverty Classes in Urban Developing Municipalities
The study draws on the multidimensional poverty index to characterize the poverty status of households in the Gauteng City Region, South Africa. In particular, it applies multinomial logit regression and mediation analysis to determine the factors influencing the transition of poor and vulnerable households into the multidimensionally nonpoor category. Data was obtained from the 2020/2021 Quality of Life Survey on 13,616 households in seven Gaute…
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment
We investigate the effects of ‘lecture‐based’ (LBT)—i.e. individual work and rote learning—vs. ‘discussion‐based’ (DBT)—i.e. participative and focused on student‐centred learning—teaching styles on the test scores and socio‐economic inequality of middle‐school students randomly assigned to classes using data from the China Education Panel Survey—a large‐scale nationally representative survey. Estimates from unconditional quantile regressions and …
Decomposing the differences in healthy life expectancy between migrants and natives: The ‘healthy migrant effect’ and its age variations in Australia
The importance of social supports in education: Survey findings from students with disability and their families during Covid-19
Emergency situations such as pandemics typically widen inequities, and Australian children and young people with disability already face significant inequities in the education system. In this paper we draw on survey data from over 700 respondents exploring education experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many families reported being left behind, finding it difficult to access education remotely, and that this was having a significant impact o…
On the Motivations of Business Travel: Evidence from an Australian Survey
This paper presents the results of a survey of international business travelers to and from Australia carried out at Sydney Airport in May 2003 to understand the motivations underlying business travel. Data gathered from a sample of 210 business travelers indicate that knowledge sharing is a very common motivation to undertake a business trip while boosting sales is the least common. Business trips emerge as a mechanism to access, develop and tra…
On the Motivations of Business Travel: Evidence from an Australian Survey
This paper presents the results of a survey of international business travelers to and from Australia carried out at Sydney Airport in May 2003 to understand the motivations underlying business travel. Data gathered from a sample of 210 business travelers indicate that knowledge sharing is a very common motivation to undertake a business trip while boosting sales is the least common. Business trips emerge as a mechanism to access, develop and tra…
Immigration and Inter‐Regional Mobility in the UK, 1982–2000
Most studies that look across local labour markets have found the effects of immigration to be benign. One possibility is that immigrants to a specific area simply push non-immigrants onwards elsewhere, thereby diffusing the labour market effects, Examining net internal migration between 11 regions of Britain over two decades, we find consistently negative displacement effects but their magnitude and significance varies. The effects are somewhat …
Short‐Term Skilled Labour Movements and Economic Growth
Economic models typically study the long‐term effects of migration, and hence emphasise their impact on a country’s endowment of skills using net migration rates. This approach however does not take into account the contribution of short‐term movements of skilled labour on a country’s stock of knowledge and ability to innovate. This paper develops a theoretical approach to extend the analysis to gross migration flows, which captures the volume of…
International Labor Visits and Knowledge Transfers
This paper presents new data on international work-related visits collected from a survey of about 2,000 people traveling to/from Australia. Visits emerge as the prime medium for face-to-face interactions to exchange knowledge rather than as a substitute for migration. Exchanging knowledge through visits is strong among outgoing visitors but statistically insignificant among incoming ones, implying that benefits to Australia's knowledge stock are…
Introduction: New Developments in Australia's Skilled Migration Flows
Immigrant over- and under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience
Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration. We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in explaining immigrant mismatch in the destination country's labour market. We use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia and find that having been …
Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
Flows of People and Knowledge between Italy and Australia
This article analyses 20 years of bilateral peoples' flows between Italy and Australia using a unique set of data collected by Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship. This period has witnessed substantial changes in the composition of migration between the two countries. Against a historical background where migration is mostly composed of unskilled Italians relocating to Australia, the past two decades have seen a progressive incr…
Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance
Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity
Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being in China
Migration Policy and Immigrants’ Labor Market Performance
This article studies whether migration policy is a suitable tool to improve the inefficient use of immigrants’ human capital. This line of investigation complements the traditional analysis of migration policy as a tool to manage labor supply. The effect of migration policy is studied, using a policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s that tightened the selection applied to certain economic immigrants. The empirical analysis, bas…
Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare: Mental health in the time of Covid-19 in the UK
The importance of social supports in education: Survey findings from students with disability and their families during Covid-19
Emergency situations such as pandemics typically widen inequities, and Australian children and young people with disability already face significant inequities in the education system. In this paper we draw on survey data from over 700 respondents exploring education experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many families reported being left behind, finding it difficult to access education remotely, and that this was having a significant impact o…
Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour
This paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers. In turn, migrants’ decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that undereducation is positively associated with the probability of emigration and return to the count…
Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during Covid ‐19
Individualized funding schemes are designed to offer people with disability greater choice and control over the services they receive. In this research, we report on a survey of over 700 families to explore how Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) supported children and young people and their families to learn remotely during COVID‐19. NDIS funding to support education during the first COVID‐19 lockdown period forms an importan…
English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia
This paper uses panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationship between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. We show that having better general or speaking skills in English is associated with a higher propensity for participation in the labour force and success in getting a job. We also find that participating in an English training programme is strongly and positi…
Can videos affect learning outcomes? Evidence from an actual learning environment
We examine the effect of an innovation in an educational context, a class of 500 + first-year economics students at a well-known Australian university. We study whether introducing content in the form of a multimedia presentation has a detectable effect on specific categories of student knowledge. The multimedia presentation has a narrator presenting concepts with images, words, and worked examples. Our key outcome measure is the probability of a…
Social assimilation and immigrants’ labour market outcomes
We analyse how immigrants’ level of social assimilation is related to their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the association between assimilation and employment, wages, underemployment, three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. Using Australian longitudinal data, we find that assimilation is strongly associated with employment and wages as well as a number of job satisfaction measures. We then split our data …
Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing
Do immigrants ever oppose immigration
This paper analyzes immigrants' views about immigration, contributing to the behavioral literature on the subject. In particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in the absence of stringent immigration policies and the large amount of undocumented immigration. We test this hypothesis using US data from the seventh wave of the World Value Survey, finding that successful immigrants…
Labour Mobility and Innovation in Africa
We investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product or process through the help of a theoretical model, and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on African countries using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey. We find that labour mobility positively affects innovation, especially for products and services, supporting its use as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge and …
Changing impact of Covid-19 on life expectancy 2019–2023 and its decomposition: Findings from 27 countries
The pandemic has caused substantial short-term mortality variations during 2019-2023 in the 27 countries studied. Although most of the 27 countries experienced increased life expectancy after 2022, life expectancy in 22 countries still has not entirely regained its pre-pandemic level by May 2023. Threats of COVID-19 are more prominent for older adults and men, but special attention is needed for women aged 85+ years
Nativity in the healthy migrant effect: Evidence from Australia
Migrant health constitutes an important public health issue; however, variations in the 'healthy migrant effect' among migrants of different nativity are not adequately understood. To fill this gap, this study examines the life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE) of the Australian-born population and eight major migrant groups in Australia for 2006, 2011 and 2016. The results show that compared with the Australian-born population, t…
The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries
The restrictions on labor mobility imposed in the COVID-19 pandemic heighten the need to review in detail the role of mobility in improving productivity and fostering economic growth. In this study, we carry out a comprehensive analysis of business visits (BVs) understood as a productivity-enhancing intrapreneurial strategy, using the most extensive set of data available, covering 33 sectors and 14 countries during the period 1998–2013. Our datab…
Economics (26 works) · Political science (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Demographic economics (16 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (16 works) · Geography (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Immigration (13 works) · Medicine (13 works)