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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2017
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
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Welfare-Optimal Status Planning of Minority Languages : An Economic Approach
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2011
We analyze normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. It is shown in a welfare-maximizing model where rights today influence the status of a language in the future, that the “naïve” ex ante cost-benefit analysis has to be augmented in various...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960476
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Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection : An Empirical Analysis
Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2010
A growing theoretical literature on the effect of politicians' salaries on the average level of skills of political candidates yields ambiguous predictions. In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on the level of education of parliamentary candidates. We take advantage of an...
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Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major
Anelli, Massimo - 2014
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
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Shocking Racial Attitudes : Black G.I.s in Europe
Schindler, David; Westcott, Mark - 2021
Can attitudes towards minorities, an important cultural trait, be changed? We show that the presence of African American soldiers in the U.K. during World War II reduced anti-minority prejudice, a result of the positive interactions which took place between soldiers and the local population. The...
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Differential Taxation and Occupational Choice
Gomes, Renato D. - 2014
We study nonlinear income taxation in a Roy model in which agents' productivity is sector-specific. We show that when income taxes can be sector-specific, the Diamond-Mirrlees theorem (according to which the second-best displays production efficiency) fails: social welfare (be it Rawlsian or...
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Signaling to Experts
Kurlat, Pablo D. - 2017
We study competitive equilibrium in a signaling economy with heterogeneously informed buyers. In terms of the classic Spence (1973) model of job market signaling, firms have access to direct but imperfect information about worker types, in addition to observing their education. Firms can be...
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Income Taxation, Tuition Subsidies, and Choice of Occupation : Implications for Production Efficiency
Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2006
The desirability for production efficiency is re-examined in this study, where agents choose occupation based on lifetime income net of tuition costs. Efficient revenue raising implies that the government should trade off efficiency in production for efficiency in intertemporal consumption, as...
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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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