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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : Native men, Turks and other migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2004

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid …-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the … entry variables do not play any significant role. This suggests that the Danish immigrant selection system is ineffective. …

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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants vs Natives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition; self-employed Turks in Germany …-employed individuals and understand their underlying drive into self-employment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …

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Legal status at entry, economic performance and self-employment proclivity : a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

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Do migrants take the jobs of native workers? : migrants rarely take native workers' jobs, and they boost employment effects in the long term

Constant, Amelie - 2014

Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicians and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008-2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants fill...

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A "healthy immigrant effect" or a "sick immigrant effect"? : selection and policies matter

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 19 (2018) 1, pp. 103-121

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How Labor Migrants Fare

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

In the globalized economy, labor migration has become of central importance. A key issue in the analysis of immigration is how the migrants fare in the economy in which they migrate, and how they assimilate towards the behavior of the natives. Using data from the United States, Canada, many...

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Self-employment dynamics across the business cycle : migrants vs natives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

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Ethnosizing immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

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