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Stars and Misfits: Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions

Åstebro, Thomas; Chen, Jing; Thompson, Peter - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 11, pp. 1999-2017

model. <i>This paper was accepted by Lee Fleming, entrepreneurship and innovation.</i> …

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The Personal Computer and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W. - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 2, pp. 187-203

explore the relationship between computer ownership and entrepreneurship. Trends over the past two decades provide some … evidence of a positive relationship between home computers and entrepreneurship rates, but the evidence is not clear. In … contrast, an analysis of the relationship between computer ownership and entrepreneurship at the individual level provides …

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Hybrid Entrepreneurship

Folta, Timothy B.; Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 2, pp. 253-269

In contrast to previous efforts to model an individual's movement from wage work into entrepreneurship, we consider …

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A New Profile of Migrants in the Aftermath of the Recent Economic Crisis

Arslan, Cansin; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Kone, Zovanga; … - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2015

Growing international migration and diverse characteristics of migrant populations make internationally comparable high-quality data on migrants essential. Regular update of these data is crucial to capture the changes in size and composition of migrant populations. This document presents the...

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The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and Their Children in Switzerland

Liebig, Thomas; Kohls, Sebastian; Krause, Karolin - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2012

Switzerland is among the OECD countries with the largest immigrant populations – 27% of the working-age population are foreign-born – and the issue of immigration is high on both the policy agenda and in the public debate. Given the numerous debates around this issue in Switzerland, one...

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The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Austria

Krause, Karolin; Liebig, Thomas - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2011

With 17% of the working-age population in 2010 being foreign-born, Austria has one of the largest shares of working-age immigrants in the OECD. As in other European OECD countries, the migration landscape in Austria has been shaped by the recruitment of low-educated labour migrants prior to the...

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The Integration of Immigrants into the Labour Market: The Case of Sweden

Lemaître, Georges - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2007

The current situation regarding the integration of immigrants in the labour market in Sweden is the consequence of a number of factors and developments. The past fifteen years have seen a higher share of humanitarian migration in Sweden than in the past. This is a form of migration for which...

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The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Australia

Liebig, Thomas - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2007

The labour market integration of immigrants in Australia is shaped by the country’s long tradition as an immigration country and its selection policy. Over the post-war period, the main origin countries of immigration to Australia have shifted from English-speaking countries to other OECD...

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The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Denmark

Liebig, Thomas - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2007

The labour market integration of immigrants has been a key issue both in the public debate and on the government agenda in Denmark, triggered by unfavourable employment outcomes of immigrants – the gaps in employment rates of immigrants compared to the native-born are among the highest in the...

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The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Germany

Liebig, Thomas - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2007

The current situation of the labour market integration of migrants in Germany has to be viewed in the light of its immigration history. During the post-war economic boom, until 1973, Germany focused on the recruitment of low-skilled foreign labour. Many of these “guestworker” immigrants...

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