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The role of social identity and perceived discrimination in human capital formation : evidence from India

Gupta, Isha - 2022

This study examines the role of historically defined social identity in human capital development over time by focusing on a region from India where social identities are defined along the lines of castes and religious groups. It investigates the evolution of gaps across social groups in...

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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece

Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022

In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...

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On immigration and native entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?

Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020

We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), make inquires to Swedish schools about admission for their children to the compulsory...

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Shacklean uncertainty and cultural embeddedness as innovation constraints in the UK

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017

We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

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Verwaltungsqualität entscheidet mehr als Regulierungsdichte über Wachstumspotenziale von Unternehmen

Kritikos, Alexander; Amoroso, Sara; Herrmann, Benedikt - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 90 (2023) 42, pp. 585-592

Schnell wachsende Unternehmen schaffen in großem Umfang neue Arbeitsplätze und sind ein wichtiger regionaler Treiber von Wirtschafts- und Produktivitätswachstum. Dieser Bericht untersucht erstmalig, wie die Regulierungsdichte eines Landes und die Qualität der regionalen Verwaltungen, die...

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Targeting migration with limited control : the case of the UK and the EU

Rienzo, Cinzia; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 16, pp. 1-19

Since 2010 the UK Government has aimed to reduce net-migration. The UK Government cannot restrict EEA migration, and it has focused instead on restricting non-EEA migration, including closing routes intended for non-EEA high-skilled workers. We identify a possible substitution effect in this...

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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges

Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 7, pp. 1-20

Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than...

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Matching worker skills to job tasks in the Netherlands : sorting into cities for better careers

Kok, Suzanne - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 2, pp. 1-36

Matches between workers and jobs are better in thick labour markets than in thin ones. This paper measures match quality by the gap between worker skills and their job tasks in the Netherlands. The smaller the gap, the better the match between skills and tasks. The measured gaps are 14 percent...

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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

innovation, and stabilize finance, Europe will have a vibrant economy, with high participation and full employment. …

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