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entry decisions and reactions of incumbent competitors is still insufficiently understood in the entrepreneurship literature …
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The returns to entrepreneurship are monetary and non-monetary. We offer new evidence on these returns using a large … traditional first-differenced panel data estimates upwards biased. We find no differences in the earnings of men with either low … or high education. Our within-twin analysis of non-monetary returns shows that entrepreneurs with low education work …
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The paper provides a quantitative assessment of social returns to education in Italy. It shows that, after controlling …
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This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of migration on income convergence in the EU's New Member States (NMS). The paper focuses on cross-border mobility of labor and examines the implications for policymakers with the help of a general equilibrium model. It finds that cross-border labor...
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We analyze the flexibility of the Canadian labor market across provinces in both an interand intra-national context using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that Canadian labor markets respond in a similar manner to...
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Based on the economic literature, various policy measures and institutions in the product and labor markets that increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between Vertical Fiscal Imbalances (VFIs) and fiscal performance...
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Despite a large and growing earnings premium for college graduates, growth in college enrollment and especially college … attainment in the United States has been quite slow. The labor market's apparent lack of responsiveness to the earnings premium … could leave them with low wealth, high debt, and low earnings. Recent research indicates that neither further increases in …
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Ihlanfeldt presents data that strongly support the "spatial mismatch hypothesis" for the high unemployment rate of disadvantaged teens. This theory, which the author thoroughly outlines in this work, asserts that the suburbanization of low-skill jobs and continued housing market segregation have...
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Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...
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