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entrepreneurship as a subject of research becomes even more complex. The increase in numbers of immigrants in most advanced economies …. More precisely, the self-employment structure of immigrants to Germany changed tremendously since the 1970s. For instance …, in the early 1970s only 40,000 immigrants were registered performing self-employment activities, and their businesses …
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immigrants to the U.S. whose entry wages fall short of those of comparable natives because their human capital accumulated in … focused almost exclusively on male immigrants. Chapter Three extends the previous research to the population of female … immigrants by examining changes across cohorts in their labor market skills, as measured by their English proficiency …
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In recognizing the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation as the principal drivers of economic growth, this paper focuses on the human attributes that govern the behavior of the entrepreneur and the societal perceptions that influence the human environment in which the entrepreneur...
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confounding factors to explain differences in immigrants’ outcomes in the mortgage market. Using loan-level data from the Spanish …
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Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2203
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We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies capture risk loving behaviour (expenditure on gambling, smoking and alcohol)...
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Studies on globalisation suggest that a factor in the growth of nonstandard employment in developed economies has been the growing capacity of multinational corporations to arbitrage wage differentials across countries. This analysis applies in particular to industries subject to direct import...
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