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migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those … who came through the employment channel are more likely to be in full-time paid work. In Denmark, however, the status at …
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Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...
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Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest immigrant population in the country. This is an interesting yet puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnated growth of self-employment among other disadvantaged minority...
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-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We …
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We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages...
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destination country language skills. We use rich administrative data from Denmark. We find substantial lock-in effects of …
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refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two … alternatively, their education is not recognized in Denmark. Hence, there may be no demand for their skills. The empirical question …;quasi-naturalquot; experiment, in which the rules for welfare benefits in Denmark changed rather dramatically. Refugee immigrants obtaining …
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The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches which categorise an individual as an entrepreneur by...
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This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non-employment increases the probability of self-employment...
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Contemporary dynamic theories of self-employment choice focus on occupational switching costs, and the risk associated with entrepreneurial income streams. However little or no previous research has addressed the question of what factors determine the length of time that it takes aspiring...
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