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Does education enhance entrepreneurship?

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2021

. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …

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Prior work experience and entrepreneurship : the careers of young entrepreneurs

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023

I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young …" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship. …

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Training, human capital, and gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Said, Mona - 2019

entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the …

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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system

Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023

Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants....

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The role of entrepreneurial human capital as a driver of endogenous economic growth

Ehrlich, Isaac; Li, Dunli; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2017

Entrepreneurship Monitor's Adult Population Survey of 63 countries over 2002-2010 and find robust support for these hypotheses. …

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Diasporas and conflict

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...

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Mapping experiences and research about unaccompanied refugee minors in Sweden and other countries

Çelikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2016

Many unaccompanied children have applied for asylum during the last few years, especially in 2015. These children face special challenges and risk being exploited due to their age and legal status. In this paper we survey research and otherwise documented experiences regarding this group of...

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Visible minorities and job mobility : evidence from a workplace panel survey

Javdani, Mohsen - 2019

In this study we use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether visible minority Canadian-borns experience any differences in their inter-firm and intra-firm job mobility, as well as wage returns associated with them, compared to white Canadian-borns. We also examine the extent to...

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Unaccompanied minors and separated refugee children in Sweden : an outlook on demography, education and employment

Çelikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2015

The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...

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Efficacy vs. equity : what happens when states tinker with college admissions in a race-blind era?

Black, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - 2014

College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....

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