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Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated … impact of migration on entrepreneurship among individuals with no migration experience. We explore the self …

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The making of entrepreneurs in Germany : are native men and immigrants alike?

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2004

This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...

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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: a large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020

family into one of two clusters, with either relatively patient, risktolerant and pro-social members or relatively impatient …, risk averse and spiteful members. Socio-economic background variables correlate with the cluster to which a family belongs …

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Occupational choice across generations

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity : a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2005

. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; ethinicity ; migration ; asylum seekers ; refugees ; migrant workers ; family …-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the … host country (worker, refugee, and family reunification), ethnic networks, enclaves and other differences among ethnicities …

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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

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Overtime work and overtime compensation in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is...

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Youth unemployment in old Europe : the polar cases of France and Germany

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2013

France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many years,...

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Youth unemployment and vocational training

Biavaschi, Costanza; Eichhorst, Werner; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012

This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and education policies. We highlight the role of demographic factors, economic growth and labor market...

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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges

Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than...

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