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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011629133
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011858094
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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents
Mann, Samuel - 2020
This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286108
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317430
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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516195
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The Perceived Well-being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Popova, Olga - 2020
this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206806
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Self-employment and Subjective Well-Being
Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021
Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390740
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the Self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated selfemployed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012512963
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Macroeconomic Contractions during Impressionable Years and Entrepreneurship in Later Adulthood
Sotirakopoulos, Panagiotis; Guven, Cahit; Ulker, Aydogan; … - 2021
entrepreneurship based on the "impressionable years hypothesis". Accordingly, we empirically investigate the relationship between bad … economic conditions during youth and later-life entrepreneurship using Gallup from 2009 to 2014. The identification is achieved … conditions when young can significantly predict higher entrepreneurship in later life. For example, experiencing at least one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519788
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Immigrant Fertility in the Midst of Intensified Enforcement
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroy, Esther - 2017
This paper exploits the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of local and state immigration enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants’ fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 American Community Survey, we find that a one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599078