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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie F. - 2004

Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...

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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany : Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant …

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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid …-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the … entry variables do not play any significant role. This suggests that the Danish immigrant selection system is ineffective. …

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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : Native men, turks, and other migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie F.; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003

Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in … selfemployed individuals and understand their underlying drive into self-employment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …

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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle : Migrants Versus Natives

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or selfemployed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed

Constant, Amelie F. - 2008

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives

Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie F.; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012

This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the German Socio-Economic Panel dataset with detailed local labour market characteristics for the...

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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed

Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany – self-employed and salaried businesswomen – and investigate whether ethnicity is important...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763778

Where do the brainy Italians go?

Constant, Amelie F.; D'Agosto, Elena - 2008

This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the...

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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe: for money or colonial vestiges?

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009

, indifferent between the UK, France and Spain as a destination country. Established immigrant networks and higher standards of …

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