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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...

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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822686

Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...

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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …

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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries

Hazans, Mihails - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK and Austria. Between 2004 and 2009, no cases found when unemployment and …

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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jaeger, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous selfemployment experience in an immigrant’s country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our...

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The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size

Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

A simple occupational choice model is used to predict that entrepreneurs who found new firms are more likely to work for small than for large firms prior to start-up. The mechanism underlying the result is heterogeneous risk aversion. The model also predicts a positive association between new...

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