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Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy
Block, Jörn - 2014
, socio-economic attributes, and start-up project characteristics that correlate with necessity entrepreneurship …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870290
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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Brown, J. David - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765295
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Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results
Bayo Moriones, José Alberto - 2016
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986770
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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy : The Spanish Case
Simon, Hipolito - 2011
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
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What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Facchini, Giovanni - 2011
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of … opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of … this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of congressional voting behavior on immigration policy during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128227
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Immigrant Welfare Receipt Across Europe
Barrett, Alan - 2011
The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...
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Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu
Kar, Saibal - 2011
immigration under continuous impact evaluation. However, of the several studies that dealt with patterns and consequences aspects … employment or the outside option of self-employment/entrepreneurship. We also discuss countervailing incentives among the mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129911
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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives : A Factor Proportions Approach
Ortega, Javier - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
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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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