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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States

Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However … other areas of the USA. This relationship holds for numerous sub-samples of immigrants and is not driven by any particular …

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Is self-employment for migrants? : evidence from Italy

Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023

literature, we find that immigrants in Italy are less likely to be self-employed. The negative gap is confirmed when propensity …

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Entrepreneurs and freelancers are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German case

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016

Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...

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Absence from work of the self-employed : a comparison with paid employees

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013

Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among the self-employed than among paid employees. Only to a small extent, this difference can be...

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State Medicaid expansion and the self-employed

Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020

This paper examines effects of state Medicaid Expansion via the Affordable Care Act on the self-employed. We first examine impacts on the probability of self-employment and find no significant effect. We then examine the probability of having health insurance and the type of coverage for...

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Overoptimistic entrepreneurs : predicting wellbeing consequences of self-employment

Odermatt, Reto; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that...

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The times they are a-changin' : organizational change and immigrant employment opportunities in Scandinavia

Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001

of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is brought forth. The comparative approach shows that immigrants in …

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Self‐employment amongst migrant groups in England and Wales : new evidence from Census microdata

Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Robinson, Catherine - 2015

Self‐employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self‐employment and immigration is, however, complex since self‐employment can be viewed as both a haven from the paid labour...

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