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Are self-employment training programs effective? Evidence from Project GATE

Michaelides, Marios; Benus, Jacob - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 695-705

We examine the efficacy of providing self-employment training to unemployed and other individuals interested in self-employment using data from Project GATE. This experimental design program offered self-employment training services to a random sample of individuals who expressed a strong...

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The Determinants of Self-Employment Growth

Goetz, Stephan J.; Rupasingha, Anil - In: Economic Development Quarterly 28 (2014) 1, pp. 42-60

, underscoring the importance of a culture favoring entrepreneurship and path dependence. Self-employment earnings and educational …

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Employment Risk, Returns, and Entrepreneurship

Low, Sarah A.; Weiler, Stephan - In: Economic Development Quarterly 26 (2012) 3, pp. 238-251

Comparing local employment portfolios against entrepreneurship, this research finds that local wage and salary job … market prospects shape incentives for potential entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship may thus be more attractive in areas … revealing tests of the interrelationship between local employment portfolios and the choice to pursue entrepreneurship. The …

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Do high school peers have persistent effects on college attainment and other life outcomes?

Bifulco, Robert; Fletcher, Jason M.; Oh, Sun Jung; … - In: Labour Economics 29 (2014) C, pp. 83-90

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the impact of high school cohort composition on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals during their early 20s and again during their late 20s and early 30s. We find that having more high...

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The impact of immigration on the French labor market: Why so different?

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - In: Labour Economics 29 (2014) C, pp. 14-27

Combining large (up to 25%) extracts of five French censuses and data from Labor Force Surveys for 1968–1999, we use Borjas' (2003) factor proportions methodology for France and find that a 10 p.p. increase in the immigrant share raises natives' wages by 3.3%, which is in stark contrast with...

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Money v.s. prestige: Cultural attitudes and occupational choices

Zhan, Crystal - In: Labour Economics 32 (2015) C, pp. 44-56

This paper studies the occupational choices of highly educated native-born American males and links their choices to cultural attitudes toward pecuniary rewards and social prestige in their ancestral countries. These cultural attitudes were reported in the World Values Survey, which surveyed...

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Discrimination, technology and unemployment

Merlino, Luca Paolo - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 4, pp. 557-567

I study the interaction between discrimination and investment using a directed search model where firms decide the capital intensity of their production technologies before being matched. Discrimination makes some workers cheap to hire. As a consequence, some firms might save on capital costs...

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Developing Self-Employment Among African Americans: The Impact of Household Social Resources on African American Entrepreneurship

Smith, Danielle Taana - In: Economic Development Quarterly 19 (2005) 4, pp. 346-355

Entrepreneurship has historically been a vital contributor to the dynamism of American economic activity and has … probability of self-employment for African Americans and Whites. The investigation of racial differences in entrepreneurship …. The results of this study show that household resources have both expected and unexpected effects on entrepreneurship. For …

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Self-employment, educational attainment and employment protection legislation

Baumann, Florian; Brändle, Tobias - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 846-859

We analyse how educational attainment and employment protection influence an individual's decision to become self-employed. By altering expected income from dependent employment, employment protection is likely to affect an individual's choice of occupation, although such a link has not been...

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New evidence on the relationship between risk attitudes and self-employment

Skriabikova, Olga J.; Dohmen, Thomas; Kriechel, Ben - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 176-184

This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that individuals could not observe what it is like to be self-employed. Since the intra-family...

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