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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001790863
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Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment
Henley, Andrew - 2009
for aspiring entrepreneurs. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; switching costs ; occupational choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003801091
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427813
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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices : the case of religion and entrepreneurship
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011
behaviour. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; religion ; culture ; Protestantism ; Catholicism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519877
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Recovering ex ante returns and preferences for occupations using subjective expectations data
Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2014
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418036
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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Do foreigners crowd natives out of STEM degrees and occupations? : evidence from the U.S. immigration act of 1990
Ransom, Tyler; Winters, John V. - 2016
This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree completion and labor market outcomes for native-born Americans. The Act increased the in-flow and stock of foreign STEM workers in the U.S., both by increasing green...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458960
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Origins of gender norms : sibling gender composition and women's choice of occupation and partner
Brenøe, Anne Ardila - 2018
I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891616
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012
; necessity ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613684
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A comparison of the human capital and signaling models : the case of the self-employed and the increase in the schooling premium in the 1980's
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980's. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335240