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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex- Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …
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Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants …, indifferent between the UK, France and Spain as a destination country. Established immigrant networks and higher standards of …
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This paper applies a microeconomic-based stylized model to identify the optimal modal split of water supply infrastructure in regions of the Global South against the background of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 6. We assume a linear city, with some plausible assumptions on income and...
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capital, networks, and connections that these leaders built while they were abroad that they in turn mobilize and utilize when …
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This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various...
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Many industries are seeing an increase in concentration, leading to a discussion on the effectiveness of horizontal merger enforcement. The policy debate shows that one of the key arguments put forward when supporting potential mergers is the possibility of realization of merger efficiency...
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We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...
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natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier evidence consistent with son preference in that having a female … bargaining power. In contrast, some evidence for son preference in fertility persists among immigrants. Immigrant families that … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For …
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The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers …
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, especially Hispanics, and immigrants. These results hold even when excluding industries that were shutdown or operating at a …
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