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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...

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The Effect of Self-Employment on Income Inequality

Schneck, Stefan - 2018

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

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Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017

This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...

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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching: a comparison between immigrants and natives

Ulceluse, Magdalena - 2018

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...

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Identity and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants

Carillo, Maria Rosaria; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, … - 2021

This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...

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Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

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Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023

Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship and investigate channels behind it. The data allows us to account for many observable characteristics as well as for risk aversion, which is usually not observed, yet crucial for...

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The fiscal impact of immigration in the EU

Christl, Michael; Bélanger, Alain; Conte, Alessandra; … - 2021

taxation and in-kind benefits to the analysis of net contributions. Our findings highlight that migrants on average contributed …

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Is the future of work childless? Self-employment and fertility

Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by maternity leave uptake, when self-employed or wage...

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Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates

Cai, Zhengyu; Stephens, Heather M.; Winters, John V. - 2019

Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...

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