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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444219
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014
Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self …-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many … upward economic mobility among lowskilled immigrants. More broadly prioritizing high-skilled immigrants may prove to be more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420344
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The influence of role models on immigrant self-empoyment : a spatial analysis for Switzerland
Guerra, Giuliano; Patuelli, Poberto - In: International journal of manpower 35 (2014) 1/2, pp. 187-215
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381983
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197083
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The effects of exposure to hyperinflation on occupational choice
Mello, Joao M. P. de; Waisman, Caio; Zilberman, Eduardo - 2013
We use data on immigrants who live in the United States to study the effects of exposure to hyperinflation on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783710
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Self-employment amongst migrant groups in England and Wales : new evidence from census microdata
Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Robinson, Catherine - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444786
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The effects of exposure to hyperinflation on occupational choice
Mello, Joao M. P. de; Waisman, Caio; Zilberman, Eduardo - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 106 (2014), pp. 109-123
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498844
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506325
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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States
Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021
Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However … other areas of the USA. This relationship holds for numerous sub-samples of immigrants and is not driven by any particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793327