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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability: Entrepreneurs versus Employees

Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...

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Measuring Segregation When Hierarchy Matters

Hutchens, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed across groups with the same economic status, concern...

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Robust Inequality Comparisons

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations Aaberge (2009) introduced two...

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Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves

Aaberge, Rolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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Occupational Mobility and Living in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Housing Tenure Differences in 'Neighbourhood Effects'

van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the least likely to achieve upward mobility because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most...

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A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales

Feng, Zhiqiang; van Ham, Maarten; Boyle, Paul; Raab, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ethnic unions that involve a minority member and a white member. To our knowledge, hardly any...

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Socio-Spatial Mobility in British Society

Clark, William A.V.; van Ham, Maarten; Coulter, Rory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

-spatial structures. We use the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) to classify neighbourhoods defined as small areas containing … between these neighbourhoods, classified into deprivation deciles. We define upward socio-spatial mobility as moving to … neighbourhoods with lower levels of deprivation. The focus on residential choices and the outcomes – residential sorting – allows us …

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Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Poggi, Ambra; Ramos, Xavier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and study the transmission of deprivation among them. In particular, we … the analysis of deprivation diffusion among social exclusion dimensions with the aim of acquiring a deeper understanding … of the mechanism governing deprivation transmission. We also provide an empirical implementation that investigates the …

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The Development of Multidimensional Poverty in Germany 1985-2007

Busch, Christopher; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion. The empirical application relies on indices introduced...

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The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes: A Longitudinal Perspective

van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates the effect of different levels of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on transitions from unemployment to employment and the probability of staying in employment for those with a job. We used individual level data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), a 5.3% sample of...

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