Paul W Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 958799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul W Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul W |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5653-105X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 728 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Seizing the policy opportunities for health- and equity-improving energy decisions
Treating implicit trauma: A quasi-experimental study comparing the EMDR Therapy Standard Protocol with a ‘Blind 2 Therapist’ version within a trauma capacity building project in Northern Iraq
Psychological trauma is a silent epidemic which presents as a global public health issue, often in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy is an empirically supported treatment intervention for PTSD and has been used as part of trauma-capacity building, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). For some survivor’s, their trauma experiences cannot be spoken of: …
Estimates of Extreme Precipitation Frequency Derived from Spatially Dense Rain Gauge Observations: A Case Study of Two Urban Areas in the Colorado Front Range Region
Precipitation design values, which describe precipitation extremes expected within a specified time period, provide critical guidance for public policy and the design of hydrologic infrastructure. Unfortunately, conventional design value calculations are limited by a major assumption: They treat precipitation as a point-based phenomenon, measured at spatially isolated gauges. We argue that because precipitation occurs over areas, design value cal…
The Emergence of Lightning in Severe Thunderstorm Prediction and the Possible Contributions from Spatial Science
Thunderstorms capable of producing dangerous weather are common in different regions throughout the world. Identifying particular thunderstorms that will become hazardous is a considerable forecasting challenge for meteorologists making warning decisions. The goal of more accurate and earlier severe thunderstorm warning has led to the idea of using a storm's lightning behavior - a reflection of storm intensity to predict imminent storm severity. …
EMDR Therapy for Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
Empirical Evidence on Human Trafficking and Migration-Debt Contracts in Bangladesh
This article presents an analysis of the payments illegal migrants make to traffickers. It covers the total amounts of these payments, the incidence of migration-debt (or shared) contracts, and the value of the deferred payment component under these shared contracts. Data on illegal migrants from three field surveys conducted in Bangladesh from April 2009 to November 2010 are used. The results show that the total payments made to traffickers vary…
Setting up a free school: Successful proposers’ experiences
The 2010 Academies Act was significant in introducing Free Schools to the English education system. Opening up funding to new, non-profit entrants on the basis of demand, the policy has aroused support and controversy on political, philosophical and practical educational grounds with implications for social justice in terms of equity and freedom. Given the ostensible quality and empowerment goals of the enacted new (limited) freedoms, the extent …
The Experiences of Migrants Trafficked from Bangladesh
This article examines a variety of experiences that trafficked illegal migrants, who had returned to Bangladesh after working in another country, encounter. Using survey research, we document considerable variation across countries of destination in the cost of migration, the amount of bribes paid to facilitators, and the reasons for returning home. Such variation was related to migrants' assets, age, gender, and education, as well as the nature …
A Theoretical Perspective on Human Trafficking and Migration-Debt Contracts
This article develops an economic model of human trafficking and migration-debt contracts. A key feature of the theoretical model is the payment of additional sums beyond the initial contracted price to alter the trafficker's queue order. These bribes are shown to be related to the level of effort applied by the trafficker. The types of data needed to rigorously test the model are discussed, together with policy implications
Factors affecting whether environmental migration is temporary or permanent: Evidence from Bangladesh
Lone mothers' time allocations: Choices and satisfactions
This paper uses the 2006 Australian Time Use Survey to examine the allocation of time to personal care, employment‐related activities, home duties, leisure and child care of lone mothers, in comparison to the time allocations of single women, women in childless couples and partnered mothers. Both primary and secondary time allocations are considered. The satisfactions that women report concerning their current time allocations are also analysed. …
Declining rates of return to education: Evidence for Indonesia
In 1977, American labour economist Richard Freeman documented a fall in the return to education in the US, and attributed it to the expansion of the country's education sector. This article shows, similarly, that the returns to education in Indonesia generally declined between 1993 and 2007–08, following the large-scale expansion of the sector. The changes, however, were reasonably modest, and sometimes differed between males and females. This su…
Gender Differentials in the Payoff to Schooling in Rural China
This article examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in rural China. The analyses are based on a framework provided by the over education/required education/under education literature, and the decomposition developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008). It shows that the payoff to correctly matched education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are under quali…
The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation framework and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling. This decomposition links over-education to the less-than-perfect international transferability of immigrants’ human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons are offered with…
Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
The Impact of Immigrant Status on Home Ownership in Australia
This paper examines the impact of immigrant status on home ownership in Australia. It shows that the rate of home ownership for most groups of immigrants is comparable to that of the Australian born. As expected, recently arrived immigrants have relatively low probabilities of owning their own home. These results hold for both analyses pooled across movers and non‐movers, and for analyses restricted to those, both immigrants and the native born, …
Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health
This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self‐reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on the type of visa used to gain admission. The empirical analysis uses the three waves of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (panel I). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more proficient in English, and living outside an immigrant ethnic enclave. Immigrant health is poor…
Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?
The international transferability of immigrants’ human capital
A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning1
A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study examines the relevance of the critical period for English-speaking proficiency among immigrants in the USA. It uses microdata from the 2000 US Census, a model of language acquisition and a flexible specification of an estimating equation based on 64 age-at-migration dichotomous variables. Self-reported English-speaking proficiency…
International Teacher Migration and the Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol: Assessing Its Impact and the Implementation Process in the United Kingdom
The article discusses the impact and implication of international teacher migration and commonwealth protocol in Great Britain. According to the author, the country's organized migration and recruitment have become a recent phenomenon which depicts the shortage of teachers in industrialized states as well as provide valuable remittances in their homeland. It also cites the reasons on the increasing number of immigrant teacher which includes compe…
How Immigrants Fare across the Earnings Distribution in Australia and the United States
This paper investigates determinants of the earnings distribution for native-born workers and immigrant workers in two countries. The authors, using data from the 2000 U.S. Census and 2001 Australian Census, employ a methodology (quantile regression) that facilitates measurement of the native-born/immigrant earnings differential and the partial effect of explanatory variables such as schooling and experience at each decile of the earnings distrib…
Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination-language proficiency among immigrants. Skills-tested and economic immigrants have the greatest proficiency shortly after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the…
Hecs and Hecs-Help: Equity issues
There have been many changes to the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) since itsintroduction in 1989. The most significant of these is possibly the reforms announced in the 2003Federal Budget, which allow universities to increase the contributions required of students by up to25%. This paper considers the distribution of deferred HECS liabilities according to thesocioeconomic status of students. An algorithm is presented for converting a…
Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment
This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of immigrant/linguistic concentrations (enclaves). The reasons for the formation of these concentrations are discussed. Hypotheses are developed regarding “ethnic goods” and the effect of concentrations on the immigrant's language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination language skills and the linguistic concentration. These hypotheses are tested using PUMS…
Immigrant earnings: Language skills, linguistic concentrations and the business cycle
A model of destination-language acquisition: Application to male immigrants in Canada
We develop a model using human capital theory and an immigrant adjustment process to generate hypotheses on the acquisition of destination-language skills among immigrants. The model is tested for adult male immigrants in the 1991 Census of Canada. Use of English or French is greater, the younger the age at migration, the longer the duration of residence, the higher the educational attainment, the farther the country of origin from Canada, and th…
A Longitudinal Analysts of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
This article develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and tests the hypotheses using data on males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, Panel I. The theoretical model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of occupational mobility from the “last job” in the origin, to the “first job” in the destination, to subsequent jobs in the destination, and regarding the depth of the “U.” The survey includes …
Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment
This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of immigrant/linguistic concentrations (enclaves). The reasons for the formation of these concentrations are discussed. Hypotheses are developed regarding “ethnic goods” and the effect of concentrations on the immigrant's language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination language skills and the linguistic concentration. These hypotheses are tested using PUMS…
Ethnic networks and language proficiency among immigrants
Patterns of Immigrant Occupational Attainment in a Longitudinal Survey
This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to examine the empirical relevance of a model of immigrant occupational mobility. Consistent with the model, there is a U‐shaped pattern of occupational change from the pre‐immigration occupation through to the occupation held after three‐and‐a‐half years in Australia. The U is shallower for immigrants from countries similar to Australia than it is for immigrants from co…
Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages
This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the ‘distance’ between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have learning other languages. The linguistic distance measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency among adult immigrants in the USA and Canada. It is shown that, when other determinants of English language profici…
Language skills and earnings among legalized aliens
Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation framework and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling. This decomposition links over-education to the less-than-perfect international transferability of immigrants’ human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons are offered with…
Language choice among immigrants in a multi-lingual destination
Factors affecting whether environmental migration is temporary or permanent: Evidence from Bangladesh
Immigrants’ Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language proficiency based on economic incentives, exposure to the destination language, and efficiency in second language acquisition. A unique data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about six…
Family matters: The role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition
Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
This article is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are more likely to live in the central parts of Metropolitan Areas in “gateway (major international airport) cities” in six states (California, New York, Texa…
Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination-language proficiency among immigrants. Skills-tested and economic immigrants have the greatest proficiency shortly after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the…
A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning1
A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study examines the relevance of the critical period for English-speaking proficiency among immigrants in the USA. It uses microdata from the 2000 US Census, a model of language acquisition and a flexible specification of an estimating equation based on 64 age-at-migration dichotomous variables. Self-reported English-speaking proficiency…
How Immigrants Fare across the Earnings Distribution in Australia and the United States
This paper investigates determinants of the earnings distribution for native-born workers and immigrant workers in two countries. The authors, using data from the 2000 U.S. Census and 2001 Australian Census, employ a methodology (quantile regression) that facilitates measurement of the native-born/immigrant earnings differential and the partial effect of explanatory variables such as schooling and experience at each decile of the earnings distrib…
Australian Evidence on the Exit/Voice Model of the Labor Market
Two predictions of the exit/voice model of union activity that have been confirmed by empirical research in the United States are that union workers will have longer tenures and lower quit rates than nonunion workers. This study replicates the methods used in one important U.S. investigation of these "voice" effects to explore whether the same effects are apparent in Australia. The authors' analysis of data on young men from the 1985 Australian L…
The Wage Effect of the Occupational Segregation of Women in Britain
Journal Article The Wage Effect of the Occupational Segregation of Women in Britain Get access Paul W. Miller Paul W. Miller The University of Western Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 388, 1 December 1987, Pages 885–896, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233078 Published: 01 December 1987
The Impact of Immigrant Status on Home Ownership in Australia
This paper examines the impact of immigrant status on home ownership in Australia. It shows that the rate of home ownership for most groups of immigrants is comparable to that of the Australian born. As expected, recently arrived immigrants have relatively low probabilities of owning their own home. These results hold for both analyses pooled across movers and non‐movers, and for analyses restricted to those, both immigrants and the native born, …
Language Skill Definition: A Study of Legalized Aliens
The robustness of the model for the acquisition of destination language skills is studied using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) of aliens who received amnesty under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. The English language proficiency variables include self-assessed overall speaking skills (the census question), speaking and reading skills in specific situations, perceptions as to whether language skills limit job opportunities, and…
Language Skill Definition: A Study of Legalized Aliens
The robustness of the model for the acquisition of destination language skills is studied using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) of aliens who received amnesty under the 1986 [U.S.] Immigration Reform and Control Act. The English language proficiency variables include self-assessed overall speaking skills (the census question), speaking and reading skills in specific situations, perceptions as to whether language skills limit job opportuniti…
Immigrant Unemployment: The Australian Experience
Between 1980 and 1996 both male and female immigrants experienced higher unemployment rates than Australian‐born workers. In 1996, for example, the unemployment rate for the overseas‐born was 9.8 per cent, compared with 8.1 per cent for the Australia‐born. A multivariate analysis is used in this article to examine unemployment rate differentials between Australia‐born and immigrants from English‐speaking countries and immigrants from non‐English‐…
The Experiences of Migrants Trafficked from Bangladesh
This article examines a variety of experiences that trafficked illegal migrants, who had returned to Bangladesh after working in another country, encounter. Using survey research, we document considerable variation across countries of destination in the cost of migration, the amount of bribes paid to facilitators, and the reasons for returning home. Such variation was related to migrants' assets, age, gender, and education, as well as the nature …
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The Cyclical Renewal of London
Research Article| July 01 1972 The Cyclical Renewal of London Paul W. Miller Paul W. Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1972) 71 (3): 365–376. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-71-3-365 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul W. Miller; The Cyclical Renewal of London. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1972; 71 (3): 365–376. doi: ht…
Elizabethan Erotic Narratives: Irony and Pathos in the Ovidian Poetry of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Their Contemporaries
William Keach. Elizabethan Erotic Narratives: Irony and Pathos in the Ovidian Poetry of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Their Contemporaries. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1977. 14 pls.+xviii+277pp. $16. - Volume 31 Issue 2
Pursuit of the Heroic Self in Davies' Deptford Trilogy
Are Immigrants and Natives Perfect Substitutes in Production
It is hypothesized that immigrant and native labor are less than perfect substitutes in production. Natives are relatively more intensive in country-specific knowledge and skills. Immigrants are relatively more intensive in the characteristics that influence self-selection for migration, including innate ability, ambition, entrepreneurship, and aggressiveness. The hypothesis is tested by comparing, for five major immigrant receiving countries, th…
Are Immigrants and Natives Perfect Substitutes in Production
Aspects of Occupational Mobility and Attainment among Immigrants in Australia
Analysis of data from the 1981 Australian Census indicates that there are considerable differences between the occupational distributions of the native and foreign born. Immigrants from non-English speaking countries are at a far greater disadvantage than their counterparts from English-speaking countries. Estimates of probability models of occupational attainment suggest that the inferior labor market position of immigrants from non-English spea…
Aspects of Occupational Mobility and Attainment among Immigrants in Australia
The Wage Effect of the Occupational Segregation of Women in Britain
Journal Article The Wage Effect of the Occupational Segregation of Women in Britain Get access Paul W. Miller Paul W. Miller The University of Western Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 388, 1 December 1987, Pages 885–896, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233078 Published: 01 December 1987
Australian Evidence on the Exit/Voice Model of the Labor Market
Two predictions of the exit/voice model of union activity that have been confirmed by empirical research in the United States are that union workers will have longer tenures and lower quit rates than nonunion workers. This study replicates the methods used in one important U.S. investigation of these "voice" effects to explore whether the same effects are apparent in Australia. The authors' analysis of data on young men from the 1985 Australian L…
The Earnings of Asian Male Immigrants in the Canadian Labor Market
The earnings of Asian-born immigrants in the Canadian labor market declined relative to the earnings of native-born workers between 1981 and 1986. Analysis of the labor market performance of immigrants from four regions of Asia--Southern Asia, South East Asia, Eastern Asia and Western Asia--shows that Asian immigrants are a heterogeneous group. However, changes in the birthplace composition of Asian immigrants cannot explain the fall in the relat…
The Earnings of Asian Male Immigrants in the Canadian Labor Market
The earnings of Asian-born immigrants in the Canadian labor market declined relative to the earnings of native-born workers between 1981 and 1986. Analysis of the labor market performance of immigrants from four regions of Asia—Southern Asia, South East Asia, Eastern Asia and Western Asia—shows that Asian immigrants are a heterogeneous group. However, changes in the birthplace composition of Asian immigrants cannot explain the fall in the relativ…
Language choice among immigrants in a multi-lingual destination
The Endogeneity between Language and Earnings: International Analyses
This study is concerned with the determinants of dominant language fluency, its effects on earnings, and its endogeneity with earnings among immigrants. Dominant language fluency is hypothesized to be a function of three fundamental variables: exposure to the language, efficiency in second language acquisition, and economic benefits from language fluency. Conceptual variables with empirical counterparts are developed. Earnings are hypothesized to…
Ethnic networks and language proficiency among immigrants
Immigrant Unemployment: The Australian Experience
Between 1980 and 1996 both male and female immigrants experienced higher unemployment rates than Australian‐born workers. In 1996, for example, the unemployment rate for the overseas‐born was 9.8 per cent, compared with 8.1 per cent for the Australia‐born. A multivariate analysis is used in this article to examine unemployment rate differentials between Australia‐born and immigrants from English‐speaking countries and immigrants from non‐English‐…
Family Characteristics and the Returns to Schooling: Evidence on Gender Differences from a Sample of Australian Twins
Data from the Australian Twins Survey are analysed in order to compare the relative importance of the role of family background as a mediating influence on the relationship between schooling and income for males and females. The analysis reveals that family background is a considerably greater influence on males than on females. This finding is consistent with a greater screening role for education in the case of females and with a process of int…
Language Skill Definition: A Study of Legalized Aliens
The robustness of the model for the acquisition of destination language skills is studied using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) of aliens who received amnesty under the 1986 [U.S.] Immigration Reform and Control Act. The English language proficiency variables include self-assessed overall speaking skills (the census question), speaking and reading skills in specific situations, perceptions as to whether language skills limit job opportuniti…
Language Skill Definition: A Study of Legalized Aliens
The robustness of the model for the acquisition of destination language skills is studied using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) of aliens who received amnesty under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. The English language proficiency variables include self-assessed overall speaking skills (the census question), speaking and reading skills in specific situations, perceptions as to whether language skills limit job opportunities, and…
Financing the Australian Unified National System of Higher Education: An Efficiency Analysis
∗ Adapted from Miller and Pincus (1997). Research on this paper was undertaken while Miller was a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinios at Chicago, and Pincus was a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. We thank two anonymous referees for helpful comments
Language skills and earnings among legalized aliens
A model of destination-language acquisition: Application to male immigrants in Canada
We develop a model using human capital theory and an immigrant adjustment process to generate hypotheses on the acquisition of destination-language skills among immigrants. The model is tested for adult male immigrants in the 1991 Census of Canada. Use of English or French is greater, the younger the age at migration, the longer the duration of residence, the higher the educational attainment, the farther the country of origin from Canada, and th…
Immigrant earnings: Language skills, linguistic concentrations and the business cycle
The complementarity of language and other human capital: Immigrant earnings in Canada
Patterns of Immigrant Occupational Attainment in a Longitudinal Survey
This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to examine the empirical relevance of a model of immigrant occupational mobility. Consistent with the model, there is a U‐shaped pattern of occupational change from the pre‐immigration occupation through to the occupation held after three‐and‐a‐half years in Australia. The U is shallower for immigrants from countries similar to Australia than it is for immigrants from co…
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