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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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Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-in-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2021

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...

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Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2021

Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...

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Why Birthright Citizenship Matters for Immigrant Children : Impacts on Parental Educational Choices

Felfe, Christina - 2016

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool programs or enable them access to higher education....

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas - 2014

In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government …

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...

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Gender, Access to Finance, Occupational Choice, and Business Performance

Gazanchyan, Nelli S. - 2017

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women entrepreneurs, the average entrepreneurial skill of...

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Should Continued Family Firms Face Lower Taxes than Other Estates?

Grossmann, Volker - 2009

entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …

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Tax Neutrality : Illusion or Reality? The Case of Entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa - 2008

This paper shows that taxes which are understood to be neutral with respect to the marginal investment decisions may be distortionary with respect to entrepreneurial decisions. In particular, we apply an intertemporal model to show that a comprehensive income tax is distortionary unless all...

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