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Left‐Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China

Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple model that incorporates economic and non-economic motives for migration duration (or intentions to return). Based on Dustmann (2003b), the parent is assumed to be altruistic and to care...

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Selective immigration policies, human capital accumulation and migration duration in infinite horizon

Magris, Francesco; Russo, Giuseppe - HAL - 2005

An increasing literature encourages the use of selective immigration policies as a tool to promote incentives to education. It is argued that, since not everybody is allowed to migrate, under these policies a poor country may well turn out with more human capital than in autarchy. The implicit...

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Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt

Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012

question using longitudinal Egyptian data. We find that entrepreneurs' migration experience significantly improves the chances …

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A Test of Separability of Consumption and Production Decisions of Farm Households in Ethiopia

Muller, Christophe - HAL - 2014

in Ethiopia, using data from a rural household survey conducted in 1994 and an estimated labour demand equation. We also … reflect the limited development of fully organised labour markets in rural Ethiopia. They also imply that purely market …

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Democracy and voting survey: first results from Ethiopia

Valfort, Marie-Anne - HAL - 2009

This working paper contains the first results of a questionnaire that was conducted in May 2004 (May, 8-9) among 331 students of the Addis Ababa University to know their opinion about democracy and the political preferences they express through voting. The paper takes the form of the...

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Mécanismes de reproduction des entrepreneurs de PME et dynamique des districts industriels italiens

Lanciano, Emilie - HAL - 2006

Notre article vise à comprendre la dynamique des systèmes de production composés de PME sur la base de l'analyse empirique d'un district artisanal italien du Nord-Est - le district de Bassano. Son objectif est de montrer que la compétitivité et la capacité de ce district artisanal à...

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Entrepreneur, entrepreneuriat (et entreprise) : de quoi s'agit-il ?

Pesqueux, Yvon - HAL - 2014

après avoir questionné la notion d'entrepreneur et d'entrepreneuriat, il sera question de l'extensivité de la figure avec la référence actuelle à l'entrepreneur institutionnel et à l'entrepreneur social.

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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China

Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011

This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...

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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior

Dejardin, Marcus - HAL - 2011

entrepreneurs between different types of economic projects, namely between innovative entrepreneurship and rent-seeking, as well as … entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of … the explicative factors of the allocation. Interactions between entrepreneurship, rent-seeking and growth are considered …

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