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Does higher education make you more entrepreneurial? : causal evidence from China

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021

Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …

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Air pollution and entrepreneurship

Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2023

We investigate the effect of exposure to air pollution on an individual's likelihood towards entrepreneurship using … panel data in China. To address omitted variable bias and endogeneity arising from self-selection into entrepreneurship and … propensity for entrepreneurship and a 34 percentage points decrease in the likelihood of entrepreneurial diversification. Our …

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Labour market outcomes and skill acquisition in the host country : North African migrants returning home from the European Union

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Tani, Massimiliano - 2011

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann (1999), Dustmann and Kirchkamp (1992) and Mesnard...

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The wage premium of foreign education : new evidence from Australia

Chan, Gavin; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...

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Immigration policy and entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2011

intuitions for the results and their policy implications. -- immigration policy ; entrepreneurship ; migration …

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Local signals and the returns to foreign education

Tani, Massimiliano - 2015

This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor schooling quality in the country of education or employers' discrimination in the host country. The quasi-experiment is the possibility for migrants to undertake an official...

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Self-employment in China : are rural migrant workers and urban residents alike?

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and paid-employment obtained through a three-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project...

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Job search as a determinant of graduate over-education : evidence from Australia

Carroll, David; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

This study considers the relationship between job search and over-education amongst recent Australian bachelor degree graduates. Using a panel estimation method, we find that using universities' career offices is associated with a reduced probability of over-education (between 3% and 8%)...

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Skilled immigrants' contribution to productive efficiency

Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...

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Returns to university quality in Australia : a two-stage analysis

Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...

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