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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 …

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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"...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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