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Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Although business ownership has implications for income inequality, wealth accumulation and job creation, surprisingly little research explores why Mexican-Americans are less likely to start businesses and why the businesses that they start are less successful on average than non-Latino whites...

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2006

The in°uence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...

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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung

Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, Jörn H.; Lutz, Andreas - 2007

die Entrepreneurship-Forschung sowie für die Entrepreneurship-Praxis werden diskutiert. Herausforderungen aus Sicht der … introduction of the “Ich-AG” or “me-plc” in January 2003, this share has increased strongly. Entrepreneurship research so far has … findings from a perspective of entrepreneurship research as well as from a perspective of governmental start-up policy. …

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Blaming the Refugees? Experimental Evidence On Responsibility Attribution

Grimm, Stefan; Klimm, Felix - 2018

Do people blame refugees for negative events? We propose a novel experimental paradigm to measure discrimination in responsibility attribution towards Arabic refugees. Participants in the laboratory experience a positive or negative income shock, which is with equal probability caused by a...

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children\'s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s...

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Race discrimination in Brazil: An analysis of the age, period and cohort effects

Reis, Maurício Cortez; Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna - 2015

Earnings differential between white and black workers present a decreasing trend for younger cohorts in Brazil. We argue in this paper that the reduction in economic discrimination for younger cohorts could have played an important role on this result. Using the Brazilian National Household...

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Covid-19 crisis fuels hostility against foreigners

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; … - 2020

Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...

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Belonging or estrangement: The European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity

Prömel, Christopher - 2021

This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are allocated to different counties by state authorities...

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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2023

This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with...

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Persecution and Escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

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