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This paper addresses a central issue to migration the role of immigrants in entrepreneurial activity. In particular, the paper focuses on the determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur for Turks living in Germany. The paper provides some important benchmarks, including the...
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market, or if those activities reflect new modes of labour market integration revealing new opportunities and markets, which … independent? The structural changes of the labour market raise the question whether self-employment can be seen as a strategy for … and labour market characteristics for women and men in a family context and their probability of being self-employed as …
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An important new literature on gross employment flows has produced a great outpouring of stylized facts. In this paper we examine one aspect of this literature through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. We extend the Davis and Haltiwanger methodology for analysis of...
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for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This …
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asymmetric information arises in the labor market when firms are unable to observe workers' supply of effort. Firms then offer a … prevents the labor market from attaining a full employment equilibrium and results in too few entrepreneurs. The final source … in which market--labor or capital--government intervention is most effective …
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the market clearing one. This results in unemployment and too few entrepreneurs. The final case arises when firms cannot …We examine how three sources of asymmetric information affect the supply of entrepreneurs and unemployment. In the … entrepreneurs and the level of unemployment. In the second case, firms cannot observe workers' effort, so they offer a wage above …
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This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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in four post-communist economies located in Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). Research …
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