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Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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Regional inequality and human capital quality : the impact of technology on the arrival rate of employment offers

Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - 2013

This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a 'search & matching' framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...

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Social networks and labor market inequality between ethnicities and races

Toomet, Ott; Leij, Marco van der; Rolfe, Meredith - 2012

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Don't demotivate, discriminate

Kamphorst, Jurjen J. A.; Swank, Otto H. - 2014

This paper offers a new theory of discrimination in the workplace. We consider a manager who has to assign two tasks to … employees expect to be favored. The manager, who has no taste for discrimination, discriminates in order to avoid demotivating …

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Ethnic drift and white flight : a gravity model of neighborhood formation

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Mulder, Peter - 2016

Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...

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Wage dispersion in Russia

Grogan, Louise Anne - 1997

This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentialsin the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the sixyears since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...

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International trade and labor market discrimination

Chisik, Richard; Namini, Julian Emami - 2016

We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination, or nepotism, into a two-sector, two …-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade … trade affects discrimination. Discrimination, or nepotism, reduces the matching probability and output in the skilled …

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Discrimination in the labor market : the curse of competition between workers

Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011

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Ethnic concentration and human capital formation

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004

Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …

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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006

We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...

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