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Does gender of firm ownership matter? : female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap
Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024
We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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Personality and entrepreneurship
Kritikos, Alexander - 2022
entrepreneurship since 2000 and shows that possessing certain personality characteristics will make it more likely that an individual … into entrepreneurship. Further, entrepreneurs are more likely to hire, the higher they score in risk tolerance, trust …
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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 …
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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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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021
The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...
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Trends in gender and racial/ethnic disparities in physical disability and social support among U.S. older adults with cognitive impairment living alone, 2000-2018
Chen, Shanquan; Zhang, Huanyu; Underwood, Benjamin R.; … - 2023
Informal care is a primary source of support for older adults with cognitive impairment but is less available to those who live alone. We leverage the U.S. Health and Retirement Survey 2000-2018 to examine trends in the prevalence of physical disability and social support among older adults with...
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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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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19 : decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the flow of … is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be persistent. This …
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Personal characteristics and intention for entrepreneurship
Yalcintas, Murat; Iyigun, Oykü; Karabulut, Gokhan - 2021
This study analyzes the relationship between entrepreneurship intention and personal characteristics and skills by …, entrepreneurship, and networking sub-dimensions of the scales are related to entrepreneurship intention. We also find that gender, the … entrepreneurship intention. Results may be useful to understand and enhance entrepreneurship potential. …
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