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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the self … the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups albeit at a decreasing rate. Among …
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. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid-employment … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much … paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment …
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also …
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This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an …
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labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a reduced range of active labor market policy schemes focusing on …
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With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...
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