Deborah A Cobb-Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 886335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah A Cobb-Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cobb-Clark |
| SIGNATURE | COBB-CLARK D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney and ARC Centre of Excellence for Children & Families over the Life Course, Australia & IZA—Institute of Labor Economics , Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Surveillance and Self-Control
This paper studies important determinants of adult self-control using population-representative data and exploiting Germany’s division as quasi-experimental variation. We find that former East Germans have substantially more self-control than West Germans and provide evidence for government surveillance as a possible underlying mechanism. We thereby demonstrate that institutional factors can shape people’s self-control. Moreover, we find that sel…
The stability of self-control in a population-representative study
We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability over the medium term. Changes in self-control are not associated with major life events, nor are they economically important. The stability of self-control is particularly striking given that our study period (2017…
Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare
A journey home: What drives how long people are homeless
Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies
Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. We present an alternative model that assumes that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of her search effort on the job arrival. These beliefs depend in part on an individual's locus of control. We estimate the impact of locus of control on job search behavior using a dat…
Healthy habits: The connection between diet, exercise, and locus of control
Return migration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants
We analyze the relationship between the age profile of retirement within an immigrant population and aggregate return migration rates for individuals from different countries of origin. The latter serves as a proxy for the relative net benefits of return migration to that origin country. Our simple theoretical model illustrates that under reasonable conditions the probability of return migration is maximized at retirement. This implies that diffe…
The stability of big-five personality traits
Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions
The authors use 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries' to disparities in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. The authors find that achievement gaps are larger for migrant youths who arrive at older ages and for those who do not speak the language of the PISA test at home. Institutional arrangements often serve to mitigate the ac…
Racial and ethnic discrimination in local consumer markets: Exploiting the army's procedures for matching personnel to duty locations
Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement
Contents: Preface Glossary PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Immigration to Australia During the 1990s: Institutional and Labour Market Influences Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller PART II: LABOUR MARKET ENTRY 2. Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants Deborah A. Cobb-Clark 3. Finding Employment After Migration: How Long Does It Take? Prem Jung Thapa and Tue Gorgens 4. Female Migrants' Participation in the Australian Labour Mar…
Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Heather Antecol, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Stephen J. Trejo, Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States, The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Winter, 2003), pp. 192-218
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants: Can Australia Compete
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants: Can Australia Compete
The purpose of this article is to...[analyze] the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia. Our objectives are to determine how the size of the pool of potential migrants is influenced by factors such as relative economic conditions and U.S. and Canadian immigration policies and to determine what implications these factors have on the relative quality (skill level) of potential …
Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers
Unauthorized workers, because of their lack of legal status, have constrained opportunities in U.S. labor markets. We examine the determinants of occupational mobility for a sample of unauthorized Latino men who received temporary residency status under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). Estimates from mobility equations (for both upward and downward occupational mobility) show that English language ability, experience, the risk …
Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers
Sherrie A. Kossoudji, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers, The International Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 901-924
Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions
The authors use 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries' to disparities in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. The authors find that achievement gaps are larger for migrant youths who arrive at older ages and for those who do not speak the language of the PISA test at home. Institutional arrangements often serve to mitigate the ac…
A journey home: What drives how long people are homeless
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants: Can Australia Compete
The purpose of this article is to...[analyze] the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia. Our objectives are to determine how the size of the pool of potential migrants is influenced by factors such as relative economic conditions and U.S. and Canadian immigration policies and to determine what implications these factors have on the relative quality (skill level) of potential …
Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers
Unauthorized workers, because of their lack of legal status, have constrained opportunities in U.S. labor markets. We examine the determinants of occupational mobility for a sample of unauthorized Latino men who received temporary residency status under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). Estimates from mobility equations (for both upward and downward occupational mobility) show that English language ability, experience, the risk …
Return migration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants
We analyze the relationship between the age profile of retirement within an immigrant population and aggregate return migration rates for individuals from different countries of origin. The latter serves as a proxy for the relative net benefits of return migration to that origin country. Our simple theoretical model illustrates that under reasonable conditions the probability of return migration is maximized at retirement. This implies that diffe…
Racial and ethnic discrimination in local consumer markets: Exploiting the army's procedures for matching personnel to duty locations
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants: Can Australia Compete
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia
Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers
Sherrie A. Kossoudji, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers, The International Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 901-924
Surveillance and Self-Control
This paper studies important determinants of adult self-control using population-representative data and exploiting Germany’s division as quasi-experimental variation. We find that former East Germans have substantially more self-control than West Germans and provide evidence for government surveillance as a possible underlying mechanism. We thereby demonstrate that institutional factors can shape people’s self-control. Moreover, we find that sel…
The stability of self-control in a population-representative study
We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability over the medium term. Changes in self-control are not associated with major life events, nor are they economically important. The stability of self-control is particularly striking given that our study period (2017…
Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers
Unauthorized workers, because of their lack of legal status, have constrained opportunities in U.S. labor markets. We examine the determinants of occupational mobility for a sample of unauthorized Latino men who received temporary residency status under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). Estimates from mobility equations (for both upward and downward occupational mobility) show that English language ability, experience, the risk …
Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers
Sherrie A. Kossoudji, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers, The International Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 901-924
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants: Can Australia Compete
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants: Can Australia Compete
The purpose of this article is to...[analyze] the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia. Our objectives are to determine how the size of the pool of potential migrants is influenced by factors such as relative economic conditions and U.S. and Canadian immigration policies and to determine what implications these factors have on the relative quality (skill level) of potential …
Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Heather Antecol, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Stephen J. Trejo, Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States, The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Winter, 2003), pp. 192-218
Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement
Contents: Preface Glossary PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Immigration to Australia During the 1990s: Institutional and Labour Market Influences Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller PART II: LABOUR MARKET ENTRY 2. Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants Deborah A. Cobb-Clark 3. Finding Employment After Migration: How Long Does It Take? Prem Jung Thapa and Tue Gorgens 4. Female Migrants' Participation in the Australian Labour Mar…
Racial and ethnic discrimination in local consumer markets: Exploiting the army's procedures for matching personnel to duty locations
The stability of big-five personality traits
Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions
The authors use 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries' to disparities in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. The authors find that achievement gaps are larger for migrant youths who arrive at older ages and for those who do not speak the language of the PISA test at home. Institutional arrangements often serve to mitigate the ac…
Return migration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants
We analyze the relationship between the age profile of retirement within an immigrant population and aggregate return migration rates for individuals from different countries of origin. The latter serves as a proxy for the relative net benefits of return migration to that origin country. Our simple theoretical model illustrates that under reasonable conditions the probability of return migration is maximized at retirement. This implies that diffe…
Healthy habits: The connection between diet, exercise, and locus of control
Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies
Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. We present an alternative model that assumes that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of her search effort on the job arrival. These beliefs depend in part on an individual's locus of control. We estimate the impact of locus of control on job search behavior using a dat…
A journey home: What drives how long people are homeless
Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare
The stability of self-control in a population-representative study
We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability over the medium term. Changes in self-control are not associated with major life events, nor are they economically important. The stability of self-control is particularly striking given that our study period (2017…
Surveillance and Self-Control
This paper studies important determinants of adult self-control using population-representative data and exploiting Germany’s division as quasi-experimental variation. We find that former East Germans have substantially more self-control than West Germans and provide evidence for government surveillance as a possible underlying mechanism. We thereby demonstrate that institutional factors can shape people’s self-control. Moreover, we find that sel…
Economics (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)