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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model …
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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment
Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...
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Elite universities and the intergenerational transmission of human and social capital
Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Neilson, Christopher; … - 2024
Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite, or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We combine intergenerationally-linked data from Chile with a regression discontinuity design to show that, looking across generations, elite colleges do both. Lower-status individuals...
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Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards : differences between immigrants and the native born
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016
the living standards of entrepreneurs. In both cases we ask whether these interrelationships differ between migrants and … Development. We find significant differences between migrants and the native born in terms of the attributes of social capital …
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Long lasting differences in civic capital : evidence from a unique immigration event in Italy
Bracco, Emanuele; De Paola, Maria; Green, Colin P. - 2015
A range of evidence exists demonstrating that social capital is associated with a number of important economic outcomes such as economic growth, trade and crime. A recent literature goes further to illustrate how historical events and variation can lead to the development of differing and...
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Social contacts, Dutch language proficiency and immigrant economic performance in the Netherlands : a longitudinal study
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2016
with high-skill-transferability, and are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants. Contact with Dutch …
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Social networks and the labour market mismatch
Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob - 2015
This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a dynamic random effects probit model, we show that social capital exacerbates the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387154
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The relationship between social capital and migrant integration, ethnic diversity, and spatial sorting
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques - 2024
individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, years since migration. We also consider the … shows that, as expected, migrants have little local social capital upon arrival. However, differences between their social …. When the migrant share in a region is larger than the national average, migrants invest less in bridging social capital …
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The wider benefits of adult learning : work-related training and social capital
Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2018
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916464
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Access to finance among small and medium-sized enterprises and job creation in Africa
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Yogo, Urbain Thierry - 2020
-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm creation requires entrepreneurial search and paying the start-up costs, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293404