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Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP
Norlander, Peter; Sorensen, Todd A. - 2016
We address the impact of declining migration on the measurement of labor market health. We first document an historically significant decline in the growth rate of the U.S. foreign born population since 2000. A decomposition shows that nearly two-thirds of the decline can be attributed to...
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Self-Employment and Migration
Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David - 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...
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Entrepreneurship selection and performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, … - 2004
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333877
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Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance
Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2005
We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337974
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378334
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Modelling entrepreneurship
Bosma, Niels; Wit, Gerrit de; Carree, Martin Anthony - 2003
Two approaches can be distinguished with respect to modelling entrepreneurship: (i) the approachfocusing on the net …
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Migrant entrepreneurship and new urban economic opportunities
Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha; Baycan Levent, Tüzin - 2009
systematically assess the conditions for successful entrepreneurship of migrants. …
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The urban growth potential of second-generation migrant entrepreneurs : a sectoral study on Amsterdam
Baycan Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha - 2009
particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377832
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Why are the returns to education higher for entrepreneurs than for employees?
van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, C. Mirjam; van … - 2007
We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and taking account of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277008
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277020