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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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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Oznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
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The impact of Mexican immigrants on US wage structure
Toussaint-Comeau, Maude - 2007
Previous study by Card and Lewis (2005) has found (puzzling) that inflows of Mexican immigrants into new metropolitan areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas Card...
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Labour market dynamics in Australia: What drives unemployment
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued that the influence of capital stock on the performance of...
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Is the melting pot still hot? : explaining the resurgence of immigrant segregation
Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Vigdor, Jacob L. - In: The review of economics and statistics 90 (2008) 3, pp. 478-497
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754039
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Are household surveys like tax forms? : evidence from income underreporting of the self-employed
Hurst, Erik; Li, Geng; Pugsley, Benjamin - In: The review of economics and statistics 96 (2014) 1, pp. 19-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392650
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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
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Institutions and financial development : evidence from international migrants in the United States
Osili, Una Okonkwo; Paulson, Anna Louise - In: The review of economics and statistics 90 (2008) 3, pp. 498-517
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