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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies
Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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Who is more mobile in response to local demand shifts in China?
Luo, Dongdong; Xing, Chunbing - 2015
In this paper, we use two nationally representative datasets to examine the population adjustment of demographic groups in response to regional demand shifts between 2000 and 2005. Results from OLS regressions show that population changes of less educated groups are more associated with changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528591
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Labor demand shocks and housing prices across the US : does one size fit all?
Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V. - 2018
This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on … statistical area-level employment and total labor income on housing prices. Instrumental variable estimates for different time …-share instrument. Results suggest that labor demand shocks have positive effects on housing prices. However, these effects appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880374
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Employment protection legislation in Russia : regional enforcement and labour market outcomes
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav; … - 2009
; regional labor markets ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903309
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Wage differentials and mobility in the urban labor market : a panel data analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong (contributor); Soest, Arthur van (contributor) - 2001
separate wage equations for the two sectors and a multinomial logit part explaining the labor market state, in which wages are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520496
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How does the COVID-19 crisis affect labor demand? : an analysis using job board data from Austria
Bamieh, Omar; Ziegler, Lennart - 2020
This study uses data from the largest Austrian job board to examine labor-demand responses in the first months after … remained low even when implemented restrictions were loosened again. The decrease in labor demand affected all levels of … impact of the pandemic on labor demand. …
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On the persistence of the China shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
-born 25-39 years old, implying that exit from work is a primary means of adjustment to trade-induced contractions in labor … across local labor markets that are much larger than the spatial heterogeneity of income effects predicted by standard …
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Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? : a long-term, local-level perspective
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2020
This study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on the seven successor states of former Yugoslavia, I explore the relationship between people's present-day pro-environmental action and the local-level intensity of a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178024
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The long-lasting shadow of the allied occupation of Austria on its spatial equilibrium
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2016
As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four different occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight travel restrictions came into place, about 11 percent of the population residing in the Soviet zone moved across the demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517937
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On the origin and composition of the German East-West population gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958646