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entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
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Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …
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We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …
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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model’s underlying mechanisms. …
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is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …
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This paper proposes an answer to the question of why social unrest sometimes occurs in the wake of an IMF Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). Under certain circumstances, partly determined by a country’s comparative advantage, a nation’s elite may have an incentive to make transfers to the...
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We claim that a sequential mechanism linking history to development exists: first, history defines the quality of social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces,...
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regions rich in marine resources differ from societies with a purely agrarian legacy in terms of institutions, cultural values …
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A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...
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We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
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