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This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
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, enablers of entrepreneurship, potential entrepreneurs, etc. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between …
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-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
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-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
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Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...
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The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...
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The main aim of this article is to identify certain specificity in self-employment of foreigners in EU countries and to find out whether the differences in self-employment of foreigners between countries are diminishing. Within the main objective, we have set two sub-objectives. The first...
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Die öffentliche Debatte um Zuwanderung und Integration wird auch heute, ein halbes Jahrhundert nach dem Beginn der neueren Immigrationsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik, noch oft unsachlich geführt. Über die durchweg positiven Erfahrungen mit den ökonomischen Zusammenhängen von Migration,...
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Seit 2008 kamen - vor allem aus der Europäischen Union - zunehmend mehr Einwanderer nach Deutschland als wegzogen. Motiviert waren diese nicht wie befürchtet durch die großzügigen Sozialleistungen, sondern durch die Aussicht auf Arbeit. Gleichzeitig mit der Struktur der Herkunftsländer hat...
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Die Bevölkerung in den europäischen Ländern altert. Das Medianalter in den EU-27-Ländern lag im Jahr 2002 noch bei 38,6 Jahren, im Jahr 2010 war die Hälfte der Bevölkerung bereits mindestens 40,9 Jahre alt. Gleichzeitig stellt die Verfügbarkeit von Fachkräften für eine zunehmende Anzahl...
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