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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
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 … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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Financial optimism and entrepreneurial satisfaction
Dawson, Chris - In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal : SEJ 11 (2017) 2, pp. 171-194
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Cascading ripples : contagion effects of entrepreneurial activity on self-employment attitudes and choices in regional cohorts
Nikolaev, Boris N.; Wood, Matthew S. - In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal : SEJ 12 (2018) 4, pp. 455-481
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Social insurance and entrepreneurship : the effect of unemployment benefits on new-business formation
Xu, Wenjian - In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal : SEJ 16 (2022) 3, pp. 522-551
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Migration Background and Educational Tracking : Is There a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?
Lüdemann, Elke - 2010
Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...
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The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration - Empirical Evidence from France
Lochmann, Alexia - 2017
We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this training, offered by the French Ministry of the Interior, depends mainly on a precise rule: the training is available when the test score of an initial language exam is below a...
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime : Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany
Piopiunik, Marc - 2015
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that...
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences between Second-Generation Immigrants : Comparing Germany and German-Speaking Switzerland
Kunz, Johannes - 2014
In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...
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