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Is self-employment for migrants? : evidence from Italy
Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023 - This draft: July 2023
Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship … migrants and those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, while it is not significant for mixed immigrant-native couples, for highly …
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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives
Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 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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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit
Portes, Jonathan - 2021
I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...
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The labor market integration of refugees and other migrants in Germany
Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2021
Using the panel data from 1995 to 2019, this paper investigates the labor market integration of non-EU immigrants in Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a heterogeneous group in terms of their motives for...
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A broken social elevator? : employment outcomes of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2020
appears to be broken for descendants of two non-EU-born immigrants. Immigrant women are also found to be particularly affected …
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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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 …
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COVID-19 and entrepreneurship entry and exit : opportunity amidst adversity
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2022
entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze primary survey data we collected in the … remote work also matter for entrepreneurial intentions. Our findings enhance the understanding of entrepreneurship formation … and closure in a time of adversity and suggest that implementing entrepreneurship training and upskilling policies during …
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