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In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality...
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regular employment position. Second, foreigners seem to gain more from self-employment relative to Germans. The earnings …
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an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage points. We find empirical support for differing earnings opportunities as a … partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self …
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an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage points. We find empirical support for differing earnings opportunities as a … partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self …
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higher hourly earnings in their second job compared to their main job. Consistent with these entrepreneurship theories, our … second job significantly increases the probability of having higher average earnings in this second job, compared to being … multiple job holders' earnings structure. …
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and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of the 20th century their descendants achieved very impressive improvements in earnings and occupational status … differences by religion. Other determinants of earnings the same, including schooling, American Jewish men earned about 16 percent …
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the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … growth than immigrants in wage/salary employment and are predicted to reach earnings parity after approximately 10 years in …
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. We also study the time devoted to market work, and monthly earnings, of self-employed workers in rural and urban areas …
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the impact of house-work on earnings of self-employed individuals using data from two German datasets. Self-employed women …. While descriptive statistics and pooled OLS earnings regressions show a negative impact of time spent on housework on … earnings, fixed-effects earnings regressions show only a negative impact on monthly earnings of self-employed men. This impact …
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We examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European Community Household Panel. Unconditionally, those re-entering paid-employment appear to have considerably lower wages than those staying in the wage sector. This...
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