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Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self …-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to … survival probability in entrepreneurship for Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants, which does not carry on to their U …
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This paper studies the interaction between labor market integration, the evolution of "work values" and entrepreneurial capital inside minority communities. A simple model of labor market segmentation with ethnic capital and endogenous transmission of cultural values inside the minority group is...
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, success does not depend on their ethnicity. -- Businesswomen ; entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; economics of minorities …
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entrepreneurship. We also show that participants hold remarkably accurate beliefs about the impacts of the treatments on occupational …
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This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to...
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We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a … validate by showing that they predict migration and entrepreneurship in the cross-section. Our results indicate that the post …
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productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper … Bank's Enterprise Survey's database for 2013, we find that capital intensity and wage significantly and positively affected …
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Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in … ; education ; Kenya …
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in Kenya in which we elicit time and risk preference parameters from 291 participants, using convex time budgets and …
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Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and …
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