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Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment

Henley, Andrew - 2009

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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Why do individuals choose self-employment?

Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - 2009

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …

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Dependent forms of self-employment in the UK: identifying workers on the border between employment and self-employment

Böheim, René; Muehlberger, Ulrike - 2006

We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that these dependent self-employed lose their rights under labour law, receive less favourable benefits...

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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja; van Ham, Maarten - 2011

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and …

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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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Immigration and the distribution of incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012

recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …

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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...

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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...

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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2008

, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …) highlighting thereby the different patterns found by immigrant group and achievement measure. …

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