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We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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We analyze first time parents' work patterns. Little empirical work exists on the influence of the partner's (change of) employment status. There is no study known to us that investigates the effects of the family's immigrant background. This study explores both issues in addition to the effects...
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for more research on digital entrepreneurship.As such, this paper provides an overview of the central research questions … currently being pursued in this field. These include questions such as: What is digital entrepreneurship? What is different in … models and entrepreneurship? How can digital entrepreneurship be supported and regulated? The paper identifies areas of …
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European context comparing results from Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Using these large and comparable data sets, our logit …
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attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship …
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More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...
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This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary education system. The study decomposes wage differentials into two components: a component which can be...
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Using a search model for Danish labor market entrants, we are one of the first studies to test whether second‐generation immigrants have the same job‐offer arrival and layoff rates as ethnic Danes have. We contribute to the search literature by incorporating matching as a way to ensure...
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This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally …
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