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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination
Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011
prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286270
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Contextualised mobility histories of moving desires and actual moving behaviour
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten - 2011
Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a growing body of longitudinal research links mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282461
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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? : The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - 2004
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261924
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Early life health interventions and academic achievement
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Neilson, … - 2012
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289980
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Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints under Labour Market Discrimination
Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294843
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Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education
Fahr, René - 2003
Using detailed time use data for Germany a positive correlation is found between the level of schooling education and time investments in informal education. Two hypotheses explain this observation: (1) highly educated people have higher opportunity costs of their leisure time and thus prefer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261584
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Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2004
This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life cycle. These data are used to test the life cycle model presented in the paper, at the core of which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261803
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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis
Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2006
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267844
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2008
We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are shocks to productivity, job destruction, the process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268615
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Happiness dynamics with quarterly life event data
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A. - 2008
This paper addresses the question of when and to what extent individuals are affected by major positive and negative life events, including changes in financial situation, marital status, death of child or spouse and being a victim of crime. The key advantage of our data is that we are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268786