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How different are immigrants? : A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement

Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...

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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008

Literature examining immigrants' educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652710

Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015

We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...

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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …

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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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The role of the regional milieu for the decision to start a new firm : empirical evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2002

Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to become an entrepreneur is influenced by...

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Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.

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