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The Palestinian labor market over the last three decades
Hallaq, Sameh - 2020
This paper consists of three economic literature review essays that survey the Palestinian labor market during the last three decades. The first essay examines the economic return to schooling since 1981 until the recent period, taking into consideration the major shocks that the Palestinian...
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Making it in America : social mobility in the immigrant population
Borjas, George J. - 2006
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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? : Distinctions by entry visa
Hunt, Jennifer - 2009
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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288115
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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011
in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500194
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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2012
rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500218
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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...
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Labor-force participation rates and the informal value of unemployment rates: Evidence from disaggregated US data
Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - 2010
The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness....
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The self-employment experience of immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 1986
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What makes a young entrepreneur?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000784925