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Grades, aspirations and post-secondary education outcomes
Christofides, Louis N.; Hoy, Michael; Milla, Joniada; … - 2012
We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and graduating. We find that parental expectations and peer...
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What's the difference?! Gender, personality, and the propensity to start a business
Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - 2010
, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269688
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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...
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The labour market integration of refugee and family reunion immigrants: A comparison of outcomes in Canada and Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2012
Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden. …
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. …
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Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272033
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274537
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Self-regulation through goal setting
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2008
Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268967
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Integrating personality psychology into economics
Heckman, James J. - 2011
This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
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