This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …

This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a … key economic outcome: female labour supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I …

We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 Census to examine the work and … society, i.e. culture. Given the different time and place, only the beliefs embodied in the cultural proxies should be … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …

continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …

. This paper argues that family labour supply interactions and cross-country heterogeneity in family culture are key for … shaped by national features. We also document that cross-country differences in family culture cause cross …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

, occupation, industry, district of residence and experience. We find that the share of immigrants in a given labour market segment … substantially reduced for males. We conclude that immigrants are negatively selected into occupations with high turnover and that … natives were not facing higher probability to exit employment due to immigrants’ presence in a certain occupation. Allowing …

market outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives …’ wages and employment. The transition of immigrants into a new labour market is a gradual process: the dynamics of this … process come from immigrants’ occupational mobility and from adjustments by local factors of production. Natives may therefore …