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We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on … substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US, while the more predominantly studied father-son measures remained … in the US relative to Sweden. We develop a model to quantify the relative roles of parent human capital, employment, and …
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We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on … substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US, while the more predominantly studied father-son measures remained … in the US relative to Sweden. We develop a model to quantify the relative roles of parent human capital, employment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344618
We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on … substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US, while the more predominantly studied father-son measures remained … in the US relative to Sweden. We develop a model to quantify the relative roles of parent human capital, employment, and …
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This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...
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This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top of the income distribution are more likely to enter self-employment, which is also associated with a lower income. This can be interpreted as a career choice that produces a...
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The study attempts to report the motivating factors of women entrepreneurs of Agartala to become self-employed through …
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entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender …A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs have markedly different psyche than others (8 out of 14 traits differ). However gender differences in traits do not …
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? (2) What are their criteria for hiring new staff? and (3) how do women entrepreneurs train their staff … entrepreneurs, their ages range from 57 to 62 and all of them are employed in the food industry.Findings & Novelty - There are six … entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in relation to adapting to good business practices.Type of Paper - Empirical …
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The relationship between female empowerment and economic development is one of the most complex examples of reverse causality, yet multiple scholars acknowledge that female empowerment promotes economic progress. One of the crucial aspects of female empowerment is female entrepreneurship;...
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