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This paper provides estimates for the Mercosur countries of the Frisch elasticity - i.e., the elasticity of … design of macro-convergence policies in the Mercosur context. -- Frisch elasticity ; labor supply ; liquidity constraints … ; Mercosur ; life-cycle models ; pseudo-panel (synthetic panel) …
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Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of perpetual economic growth. This paper takes issue with the obsession with this growth myth, discussing the dangers it poses. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are...
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We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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We provide the first test of the Hoff and Stiglitz (2004) model predicting whether and under what conditions mass privatizations are accompanied by asset stripping. In addition to directly testing the theory, we also tackle an important policy-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient...
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Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...
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Upon assuming power for the first time in 1935, the Norwegian Labour Party delivered on its promise for a major schooling reform. The reform raised minimum instruction time in less developed rural areas and boosted the resources available to rural schools, reducing class size and increasing...
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We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies immigrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization … well, but do not assimilate. Having some schooling is worse than no education for integration or assimilation. The … ; migrant assimilation ; migrant integration …
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and …
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immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, Muslim immigrants' perceived integration, as … for the existence of a negative trend in the integration of Muslims prior to the terrorist attacks. We further show that … terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims …
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