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The political economy of immigrant legalisation: evidence from the 1986 IRCA
Sabet, Navid; Winter, Christoph - 2019
What happens to the distribution of public resources when undocumented migrants obtain legal status through nation-wide amnesty? In this paper, we exploit variation in legal status from the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) to answer this question and find that state governors, of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018302
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Immigrant Legalization and the Redistribution of State Funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA
Sabet, Navid; Winter, Christoph - 2023
We study the impact of immigrant legalization on fiscal transfers from state to local governments in the United States, exploiting variation in legal status from the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). State governments allocate more resources to IRCA counties, an allocation that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469495
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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016
entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431270
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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not Just a Matter of Personality
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
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