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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...
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The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...
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We assess the role of gender-conforming social norms in household decision-making and gender inequalities in the labor … test the model predictions and find that women in same-sex couples have a longer commute to work than working women in … different-sex couples, whereas the commute to work of men in same-sex couples is shorter than the one of working men in …
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likely to be inactive and work more hours than different-sex couples, largely due to the differences in the probability of …
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find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to …
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find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to …
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find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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. We apply the empirical frame- work to evaluate an in-work benefit for low-paid parents in the German institutional … context. The benefit is supposed to increase work incentives for secondary earners. Based on the structural model we are able … intensive and extensive margin. We find that the in-work benefit for parents substantially increases working hours of mothers of …
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relatively high levels of female labor supply work more in the United States. Moreover, most of this effect remains when we … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The … negative interaction effects between previous work experience and source country female labor supply on women's US work hours …
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