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Ñopo, Hugo - 2007

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …

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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality : New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research …

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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta - 2016

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …

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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...

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Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?

Howard, Larry L. - 2011

This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment...

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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields : Evidence from California

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2013

The low number of college graduates with science degrees – particularly among under-represented minorities – is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a...

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Minority and Immigrant Homeownership Experience : Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey

Mundra, Kusum - 2013

Using data from the 2009 American Housing Survey and Hazard Model, this paper provides empirical evidence that the homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent deterioration of underwriting practices and a...

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The Impacts of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata

Couch, Kenneth A. - 2020

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...

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Cigarette Taxes and Smoking among Sexual Minority Adults

Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2020

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult smoking by studying individuals in same-sex households (a large share of whom are in same-sex romantic relationships) from the 1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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Minority Salience and Political Extremism

Colussi, Tommaso - 2016

This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across municipalities over the period 1980-2013, we find that the presence of a mosque increases political...

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