Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 248
Cover Image
What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003
Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in …-employed individuals and understand their underlying drive into selfemployment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant entrepreneurs … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439390
Cover Image
Do entrepreneurs really earn less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438045
Cover Image
Economic preferences and attitudes of the unemployed : are natives and second generation migrants alike?
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010
In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274117
Cover Image
The effect of migration on careers of natives : evidence from long-term care
Haan, Peter; Wnuk, Izabela - 2024
This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468832
Cover Image
Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … starting a business. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; start-ups ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580116
Cover Image
The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012
; necessity ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665429
Cover Image
Is the melting pot still hot? : explaining the resurgence of immigrant segregation
Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Vigdor, Jacob L. - In: The review of economics and statistics 90 (2008) 3, pp. 478-497
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754039
Cover Image
Gender differences in entrepreneurial choice and risk aversion : a decomposition based on a microeconometric model
Fossen, Frank M. - 2009
rate, but only a small part of their lower entry rate. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; risk aversion ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889522
Cover Image
Are household surveys like tax forms? : evidence from income underreporting of the self-employed
Hurst, Erik; Li, Geng; Pugsley, Benjamin - In: The review of economics and statistics 96 (2014) 1, pp. 19-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392650
Cover Image
The dynamics of repeat migration : a Markov chain analysis
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003 - Draft: October 2003
While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439143