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A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size

Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

A simple occupational choice model is used to predict that entrepreneurs who found new firms are more likely to work for small than for large firms prior to start-up. The mechanism underlying the result is heterogeneous risk aversion. The model also predicts a positive association between new...

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Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences

Fouarge, Didier; Kriechel, Ben; Dohmen, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, college and university, measured around the time that they start their labor market career in a large representative survey, to the riskiness and timing of earnings in the occupations they choose to work in. We find a...

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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...

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Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...

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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … over time. However, when immigrants have accumulated more years of residence in Germany, the likelihood is increasing again …

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

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human … self-employed than native Germans. The earnings of self-employed men increase with exposure to Germany, hours worked and …

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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives

Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of French migration. The research questions are: how do immigrants fare with respect to wages,...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a …

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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the...

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