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This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006 …
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Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we … analyze both the departure and the return from abroad for recent non-Dutch immigrants to The Netherlands. Results disclose … differences among migrants by migration motive and by country of origin and lend support to our analytical framework. Combining …
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economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …
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Netherlands. In order to develop a solid assessment of CSFs for migrant entrepreneurs, and to understand business performance in a … systematically assess the conditions for successful entrepreneurship of migrants. …Nowadays, migrants form a significant share of the urban population, and their business is critical for urban economic …
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Co-ethnic employment refers to the stylised fact of many labour markets that there is an over-representation of workers of the same ethnic group within firms. This paper presents empirical proof of the phenomenon and analyses the incentives for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues...
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intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …
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This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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likely to become entrepreneurs. By not havingtaken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone...
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Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority...
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