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Education and Self-Employment : South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market
Dutta, Nabamita - 2014
Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054578
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity : A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318050
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Hybrid (Solo)Self-Employment and Upskilling : Is Online Platform Work a Path Towards Entrepreneurship?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Ranieri, Antonio - 2022
fuller entrepreneurship. We also examine if a digital proto-entrepreneurial experience is sustainable over time by analysing … of necessity, making their journey from proto- to full entrepreneurship less feasible. Our paper provides additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030660
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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Poschke, Markus - 2021
start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … persist in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324800
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Kahanec, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamentalfeatures of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model,this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnicgroups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861410
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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status ofEthnic Minorities in Britain
Kahanec, Martin; Mendola, Mariapia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependenceon social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issueswith significant policy consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861430
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A policy agenda for diversity and minority integration
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841907
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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697742
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Costs and benefits of labour mobility between the EU and the eastern partnership countries : country study on Germany
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migrants from these countries. This study aims to fill this gap by studying the size and assimilation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201628
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"Tongue tide" : the economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016
This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who, on arrival, do not know their host country's language. It reviews problems of economic integration into the labor market, the consequences of the formation of immigrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516716