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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...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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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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Child poverty in English-speaking countries

Micklewright, John (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Emigration from the UK, 1870 - 1913 and 1950 - 1998

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Remote work across jobs, companies, and space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...

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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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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016

Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …

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Community entrepreneurship in deprived neighbourhoods : comparing UK community enterprises with US community development corporations

Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015

CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …

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Court-ship, kinship and business : a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - 2015

In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...

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