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On immigration and native entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle- aged and older Chinese adults : lower level or faster decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys...

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Job status, international migration and educational choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...

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Schooling forsaken : education and migration

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...

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Constrained school choice in Egypt

Krafft, Caroline; Elbadawy, Asmaa; Sieverding, Maia - 2017

This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed-methods approach that combines survey data with qualitative in-depth interviews to explore schooling decisions. Some private and religious schools exist, but we find that in most...

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Shacklean uncertainty and cultural embeddedness as innovation constraints in the UK

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017

We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

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The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education : a regression discontinuity analysis

Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kucukbayrak, Muserref; Tumen, Semih - 2021

We exploit an age-specific minimum wage rule-which sets a lower minimum wage for workers of age 15 than the adult minimum wage paid to workers of age 16 and above-and its abolition to estimate the causal effect of a minimum wage increase on youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a...

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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Bartolini, Stefano; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...

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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...

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The political economy of child labor

Dimova, Ralitza - 2021

Concerns about the welfare of working children has over time produced a wide range of international and national interventions in the child labor market, culminating most recently in a commitment to eradicate the worst forms of child work via the attainment of target 8.7 of the Sustainable...

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