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Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the probability of children's entrepreneurship by about 60%. We further show that for adoptees, both biological and … these two effects for adopted children is almost identical to the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship for own …-birth children. We explore several candidate explanations for this important post-birth effect and present suggestive evidence in …
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Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?
Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment...
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Occupational Choice Across Generations
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
occupational choice for the children of immigrants as well as for the natives. Our findings are surprisingly similar for both …
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The Inter-Related Dynamics of Dual Job Holding, Human Capital and Occupational Choice
Panos, Georgios A.; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A sequential profile of the working lives of employees is...
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Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States
Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039640
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Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?
Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted income on the probability to become self-employed. The predicted income is calculated from a...
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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives
Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of French migration. The research questions are: how do immigrants fare with respect to wages,...
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Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice
Ham, Roger; Junankar, Pramod N.; Wells, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper is an econometric investigation of the choice of individuals between a number of occupation groupings utilising an extensive array of conditioning variables measuring a variety of aspects of individual heterogeneity. Whilst the model contains the main theory of occupational choice,...
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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079230
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Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners
Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Selfemployment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome for unemployed...
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