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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor market experience and increase with initially...
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This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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Keywords: youth entrepreneurship, self-employment Corresponding author: David G. Blanchflower Department of Economics … searching for new alternatives. One is the idea that policy should attempt to create more entrepreneurship among the young … are a number of ‘potential’ benefits often discussed by commentators. • Entrepreneurship may promote innovation and …
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