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Exploring entrepreneurial intentions and motivations: A comparative analysis of opportunity-driven and necessity-driven entrepreneurs
Batz Liñeiro, Aglaya; Romero Ochoa, Jhon Alexander; … - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 13 (2024) 1, pp. 1-28
This study investigates the impact of entrepreneurial attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral controls on … utilized. Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior, the findings indicate that attitudes do not positively correlate with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519655
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Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059111
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Determinants of inter-country internet diffusion rates
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Leiter, Daniel B. - 2008
This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on variables that capture social, economic and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268626
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Tolerance, cultural diversity and economic growth: Evidence from dynamic panel data analysis
Alhendi, Osama; Tóth, József; Lengyel, Péter; … - In: Economies 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16
This study aims to examine the impact of social tolerance of cultural diversity, and the ability to speak widely spoken languages, on economic performance. Based on the literature, the evidence is still controversial and unclear. Therefore, the study used panel data relating to (99) non-English...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199758
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English Proficiency and Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2017
Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children. This paper explores how much of such differences in achievement can be accounted for by a lack of English proficiency. To identify the causal effect of English proficiency on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744560
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The religious affiliation and anti-semitism of secondary school Swedish youths: A statistical analysis of survey data from 2003 and 2009
Bevelander, Pieter; Hjerm, Mikael; Kiiskinen, Jenny - 2013
anti-Semitic attitudes and incidents in recent decades. The latter is also depicted as being related to the Israeli … innate and fairly stable over the life cycle, examining adolescents' attitudes is vitally important because they can help us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293241
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Preferences for inequality: East vs. West
Suhrcke, Marc - 2001
address this question. In particular, we examine whether attitudes to inequality differ between East and West even after the … „conventional“ determinants of attitudes are controlled for. Results suggest that this is indeed the case. A decade after the … inequality and other determinants of attitudes are taken into account. These results do not seem to be driven by a recent change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295562
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Not guilty? Another look at the nature and nurture of economics students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
result: studying economics does in fact influence how they arrive at value judgements, though students' attitudes do not stem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301744
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Is organic farming a chance for family farms to survive?
Fertő, Imre; Forgács, Csaba - 2010
The paper investigates the choice between conventional and organic production technologies for individual farmers in Hungarian agriculture. We employ sequential logit model on a cross-section data set of Hungarian farmers for the period 2007. Our estimations reveal that age of farmers has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307583
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The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401755