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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137039
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan
Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Baljeu, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144558
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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137380
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Wage Dispersion in Russia
Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1997
This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137056
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144501
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513241
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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan
Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137269