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Does self-employment measure entrepreneurship? evidence from Great Britain

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative …

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Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …

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Racial segregation patterns in selective universities

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban M.; Hussey, Andrew; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper examines sorting into interracial friendships at selective universities. We show significant friendship segregation, particularly for blacks. Indeed, black friendships are no more diverse in college than in high school despite the colleges blacks attend having substantially smaller...

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The returns to temporary migration to the United States: evidence from the Mexican urban employment survey

Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Mexican migration to the United States has been a very important issue throughout the twentieth century, and its relevance has reached unprecedented levels during the last two decades. Even though there is a huge body of literature that analyses many different aspects of this phenomenon, the...

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Explaining cross-racial differences in the educational gender gap

Aucejo, Esteban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The sizable gender gap in college enrolment, especially among African Americans, constitutes a puzzling empirical regularity that may have serious consequences on marriage markets, male labor force participation and the diversity of college campuses. For instance, only 35.7 percent of all...

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Freedom fries

Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Do firms choose inputs that minimize their cost of production, ignoring the attitudes of their owners and employees? We examine this question using an episode of worsening relations between the US and France: from February 2002 to March 2003, France's favorability rating in US public opinion...

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Freedom fries

Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

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Change and continuity among minority communities in Britain

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...

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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...

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Trust and racial income inequality: evidence from the U.S.

Tesei, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...

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