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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

-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …

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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R; Roed, Knut; Skogstrøm, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, David B; Carree, Martin A; Thurik, A R Roy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the 'refugee' effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self employment may indicate increased...

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Formation and Persistence of Oppositional Identities

Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a dynamic model of identity formation that explains why ethnic minorities may choose to adopt oppositional identities (i.e. some individuals may reject or not the dominant culture) and why this behavior may persist over time. We first show that the prevalence of an oppositional...

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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

significantly affected by ethnicity; namely language and nationality. Russian speakers, as opposed to Ukrainian speakers, were …

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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

Alesina, Alberto F; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …

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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

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

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

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

and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a …

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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behaviour

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...

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