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Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - CESifo - 2013

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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(Why) Do Self-Employed Parents Have More Children?

Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - CESifo - 2003

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises the self-employed household’s expected return to...

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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany

Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2015

authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration …

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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …

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Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - CESifo - 2015

-native achievement gaps, but we find evidence for a detrimental impact for less integrated migrants. …

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - CESifo - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - CESifo - 2013

We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...

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Migration Background and Educational Tracking: Is there a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?

Lüdemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido - CESifo - 2010

Research on immigrants’ educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for...

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