Similar Search Results

Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia

Yemtsov, Ruslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

impact of market forces favoring human capital accumulation on the formation of earnings. Today, a large and growing fraction … for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low …-productivity agricultural or trading activities, with little earnings stability and little potential for long term earnings growth. Prospects …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822874

The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of the 20th century their descendants achieved very impressive improvements in earnings and occupational status … differences by religion. Other determinants of earnings the same, including schooling, American Jewish men earned about 16 percent …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469716

Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … growth than immigrants in wage/salary employment and are predicted to reach earnings parity after approximately 10 years in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574578

Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Beckhusen, Julia; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Graaff, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the population, potentially leading to better paying jobs and economic success in the new country....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650609

Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy

Aslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527301

Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734420

Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind

Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated, previous studies have not focused on whether migration provides the same benefits to individuals who did not migrate. Using a unique dataset that provides information on both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990916

What Happens to the Careers of European Workers When Immigrants "Take Their Jobs"?

Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we use a dataset that follows a representative sample of native Europeans, resident of 11 countries, over the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and wage. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885182

Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

effects on business sales, earnings, or employees. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886140

Happiness and Work

Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959638

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last