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African Americans ̉pursuit of self-employment
Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor);  … - 2007
differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ … predicted by one's race. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; entry barriers ; African American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591481
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Who becomes an entrepreneur? : labor market prospects and occupational choice
Poschke, Markus (contributor) - 2008
start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … persist in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771968
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“Entrepreneurs out of necessity” : a snapshot
Poschke, Markus - 2010
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across … market. This evidence is a challenge for existing theories of heterogeneous firms. -- Entrepreneurship ; firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959157
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906254
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Racial identity and education
Patacchini, Eleonora (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2006
We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test score while having a negative effect on blacks' test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301663
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The effect of immigration on the school performance of natives : cross country evidence using PISA test scores
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011
We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant relationship. The size of the estimated effect is small: doubling the share of immigrant pupils...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152817
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Kick it like Özil? : decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558937
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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants
Schüller, Simone - 2011
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522524
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Migration policy can boost PISA results : findings from a natural experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2012
Switzerland radically changed its migration policy in the mid-nineties from a "non-qualified only" policy to one that favors the immigration of highly qualified migrants. To analyze the impact of this change on the schooling outcomes of migrants, this paper compares the PISA (OECD Programme for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530287
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Non-native speakers of English in the classroom : what are the effects on pupil performance?
Geay, Charlotte; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534919