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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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Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven US cities over the period 1972 - 1980. Conventional neoclassical discrete-exchange models of the labor market are shown to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the...
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Local labor markets are characterized by rigidities in their patterns of adjustment to short-run fluctuations. With or without unions, fluctuations in employment, hours worked, and money wages are unlike the patterns predicted by conventional discrete-exchange labor-market theories. Moreover...
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A new political dispensation in 1994 heralded a period of optimism for many ordinary SouthAfricans, who hoped for freedom and an escape from poverty. Since this transition, however,South Africa has registered steady increases in unemployment, which was already high andwidespread at that stage....
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Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile
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This paper evaluates how efficiently farm households allocate labor between farm and off-farm activities. It estimates farm and off-farm labor supply functions to determine the factorsthat influence labor allocation. Both the shadow wage and the off-farm wage rate are includedas regressors in...
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