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This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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We use data on immigrants who live in the United States to study the effects of exposure to hyperinflation on …
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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However … other areas of the USA. This relationship holds for numerous sub-samples of immigrants and is not driven by any particular …
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matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and … likelihood of being overeducated decreases for self-employed immigrants, with inconclusive results for selfemployed natives. The … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and …
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literature, we find that immigrants in Italy are less likely to be self-employed. The negative gap is confirmed when propensity … migrants and those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, while it is not significant for mixed immigrant-native couples, for highly … skilled, and for migrants from Asia and Oceania. The largest gap is found for those working in the agricultural sector …
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