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Granting Birthright Citizenship - A Door Opener for Immigrant Children's Educational Participation and Success?

Saurer, Judith; Felfe, Christina - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Does granting citizenship at birth help immigrant children to integrate in the host country's educational system and thus, to promote their educational success? Our identification strategy is based on a reform of the German naturalization law in 2000. We exploit this natural experiment and use a...

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Matching Skills of Individuals and Firms Along the Career Path

Bublitz, Elisabeth - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

data for Germany, show that the degree to which firm knowledge is portable depends on skill similarities between the firms … workers. Firm and occupational skill distances, that is firm and occupation specific knowledge, both are negatively related to …

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Stepping Forward: Personality Traits, Choice of Profession, and the Decision to Become Self-Employed

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single act...

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Financing SMEs in Europe

Ayadi, Rym; Bernet, Beat; Bovha-Padilla, Simona; Franck, Tom - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum

potential and, in particular when it comes to lack of risk capital, their innovation and R&D activity. Against this background …

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