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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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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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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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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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Entrepreneurship and Comparative Advantage

Dorobat, Carmen Elena; Topan, Mihai-Vladimir - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurship 24 (2015) 1, pp. 1-16

the connection between entrepreneurship (understood as judgement of the allocation of resources under uncertainty), the …

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Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions of University Students in Egypt

Hattab, Hala W. - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurship 23 (2014) 1, pp. 1-18

The main objective of the study was to investigate the impact of entrepreneurship education on the entrepreneurial … Egyptian university from three faculties. The findings suggest positive relationship between entrepreneurship education and … significance and importance of entrepreneurship, it is desirable to reform the educational system to encourage creativity and …

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Talking about a Better Place: How Shai Agassi is Creating a Mass Market for Electric Vehicles

Loock, Moritz; Mueller, Susan - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurship 21 (2012) 2, pp. 289-313

According to creation theory, opportunities do not exist independently of entrepreneurs; instead they are created by the actions of entrepreneurs. However, little is known about the process of how opportunities are actually acted upon. We explore the role of communication in opportunity...

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