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COVID-19, race, and gender
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021
underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494007
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COVID-19, race, and gender
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021
underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496842
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Unternehmensgründungen von Ausländern in Deutschland : Einkommenseffekte und Implikationen für die Gründungslehre
Block, Jörn; Sandner, Philipp; Wagner, Marcus; … - 2009
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels für Deutschland (SOEP), inwieweit selbständige Ausländer in Deutschland überdurchschnittlich hohe Einkommen erzielen. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass ausländische Selbständige insgesamt höhere Einkommen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635236
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Necessity and opportunity entrepreneurs and their duration in self-employment : evidence from German micro data
Block, Jörn; Sandner, Philipp - 2009 - Version of October 2006
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity entrepreneurs differ from opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity entrepreneurs remain in self-employment longer than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635111
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Necessity and opportunity entrepreneurs and their duration in self-employment : evidence from German micro data
Block, Jörn; Sandner, Philipp - 2007
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity entrepreneurs differ from opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity entrepreneurs remain in self-employment longer than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442177
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De jure and de facto determinants of power : evidence from Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2012
previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by race covering the counties of Mississippi in 1896, shortly after the … majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 …. -- race ; voting ; institutions ; education ; inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569273
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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. -- race ; inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523520
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Slavery, education, and inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303446
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Race v. suffrage : the determinants of development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force … driving the above outcomes. -- race ; institutions ; development ; inequality ; education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427294
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820685