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Handbook of research on ethnic minority entrepreneurship : a co-evolutionary view on resource management
Dana, Leo Paul (contributor) - 2007
-- Immigrant entrepreneurs in Germany / Maria Kontos -- Migrant entrepreneurship in Germany / Maggi W.H. Leung -- Ethnicity, gender … and entrepreneurship: Turkish entrepreneurs in Germany / Robert Putz, Verena Schreiber and Isabell Welpe -- Immigrant … entrepreneurship in India / David Blake Willis and J. Rajasekaran -- Immigrant entrepreneurs and the Israeli welfare state …
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Cases on entrepreneurship and diversity
Dhaliwal, Spinder (ed.) - 2024 - First edition
and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. With contributions from highly experienced academics from a variety of backgrounds …, it will help entrepreneurship educators and teachers to decolonise business and innovation curricula while reflecting on … Entrepreneurship and Diversity will be essential for students of such disciplines as business and entrepreneurship who wish to fully …
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Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
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The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were close substitutes to the native West German...
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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper demonstrates that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for low-skilled native workers, who are much less...
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana; Yuksel, Mutlu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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A Frictionless Model of Job Flows and the Beveridge Curve
Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
The Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model is the workhorse of labor macro, but it has difficulty in simultaneously matching the cyclical behavior of job loss and vacancies when taken to the data. By completely ignoring frictions in job creation and focusing instead on firm-level...
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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers
Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...
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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries
Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm’s outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...
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Working-week flexibility: Implications for employment and productivity
Osuna, Victoria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly hours worked introduced in the recent Spanish labour market reform (the 2012 reform). A crucial aspect of the model will be the extent to which firms will be able to choose the...
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