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We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over …
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We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261837
The authors present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they moved from … transition. For the most part, firms appear to have been quick to adjust employment to wage levels, and there is little evidence … process, however. Hungarian and Polish firms started the transition already substantially reformed, and became even more …
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
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In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they move … transition. We find evidence that firms behave for the most part as if they were on their labor demand curves, with little … process however. Hungarian and Polish firms started the transition already substantially reformed, and became even more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318949
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
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This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead...
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. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …
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