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Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates : The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes

Bertoni, Marco - 2017

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …

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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2012

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...

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Does Higher Education Make You More Entrepreneurial? Causal Evidence from China

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021

Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …

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Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country : North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2011

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann (1999), Dustmann and Kirchkamp (1992) and Mesnard...

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Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship

Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021

We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the …

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Not in My Community : Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Bassanini, Andrea - 2015

We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by the local communities where firms' headquarters are located induces CEOs to refrain from dismissing...

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"For One More Year with You":Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Educationand the Distribution of Wages in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time inthe changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of educationon the distribution of earnings...

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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired Under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...

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Immigrant Over- and Under-Education : The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience

Piracha, Matloob - 2010

The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in the home country in jobs below their education...

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Labour Market Under-Utilisation of Recent Higher Education Graduates : New Australian Panel Evidence

Carroll, David - 2011

Recent research into the Australian labour market has reported that a substantial proportion of the tertiary-educated labour force is under-utilised relative to their level of education, echoing findings from an expanding international literature. This paper uses recent panel data from the 2010...

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