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Self-employment, knowledge and economic growth: An empirical study for Latin American countries

González Sánchez, Víctor M. - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 4, pp. 473-484

entrepreneurship is one of the elements that could positively contribute to this growth. Among other factors, both entrepreneurship and … relationship between economic growth, knowledge and entrepreneurship within the context of Latin American countries during the … period 2001-2016. For this purpose, the self-employment variable has been used as an empirical proxy of entrepreneurship. In …

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Learning lessons from the economic crisis in self-employment

Iyke, Bernard Njindan; Ho, Sin-yu - In: Contemporary Economics 14 (2020) 1, pp. 3-21

The main objective of this article is to test the hypothesis that the economic crisis has resulted in significant changes in the socioeconomic and labor profile of the new self-employed in Spain between 2008 and 2013. Additionally, it is intended to determine if there are homogeneous profiles of...

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Supply of immigrant entrepreneurs and native entrepreneurship

Ghimire, Keshar M. - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-42

entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial propensities of natives. The author draws data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of … entrepreneurs on native entrepreneurship. Moreover, there is no net effect on subgroups of natives separated by skill level. There …

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Acquisition of permanent residence by temporary foreign workers in Canada: A panel study of labour market outcomes before and after the status transition

Ci, Wen; Hou, Feng; Morissette, René - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 2, pp. 1-24

Using a unique administrative dataset, this study investigates the employment and earnings trajectories of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) during the years surrounding their acquisition of permanent residence in Canada. If the labour market assimilation of TFWs follows a smooth trajectory in...

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Liberalization of European migration and the immigration of skilled people to Sweden

Ejermo, Olof; Zheng, Yannu - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 5, pp. 1-25

Migration policies can have a strong impact on the selection of immigrants, who in turn can affect the host country's innovation development. This paper examines the effects of the liberalization of migration on the skill composition of immigrants from the EU-15 to Sweden after the inception of...

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Transnational social mobility of minorities: A comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

Kislev, Elyakim - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21

There is extensive scholarship on the condition of being a minority in one's home country and vast literature on the experience of immigrants in host countries. However, almost no attention has been paid to the distinct mechanisms pertaining to immigrants who were minorities in the source...

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First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions

Xu, Huanan - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 19, pp. 1-36

Using individual-level Current Population Survey (CPS) data matched across adjacent months from 1996 to 2013, this paper examines immigrant-native differentials in labor market transitions to changes in the business cycle. The paper captures economic fluctuations by measuring deviations in local...

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Word to the mother(tongue): Language access and Medicaid for Limited English Proficient migrants

Liou, Wayne - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 23, pp. 1-17

Limited language proficiency among migrants has been shown to limit migrants from various aspects of everyday life, from the labor market to government services. In the USA, language access laws have been enacted to help provide Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals and households access...

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International students, immigration and earnings growth: The effect of a pre-immigration host-country university education

Hou, Feng; Lu, Yuqian - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 5, pp. 1-24

While destination-country education provides many potential advantages for immigrants, empirical studies in Australia, Canada and the USA have produced mixed results on the labour outcomes of immigrants who are former international students. This study uses large national longitudinal datasets...

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Immigration and the rate of population mixing: Explorations with a stylized model

Denton, Frank Trevor; Spencer, Byron Grant - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 13, pp. 1-15

The integration or mixing of immigrants with non-immigrants is an important issue in many countries. There are various forms of mixing. We consider here cross-parenting, the bearing of children with one immigrant parent and one non-immigrant. Our objective is to model cross-parenting as a...

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