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The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of the 20th century their descendants achieved very impressive improvements in earnings and occupational status … differences by religion. Other determinants of earnings the same, including schooling, American Jewish men earned about 16 percent …

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The Impact on Earnings When Entering Self-Employment: Evidence for Germany

Martin, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) earnings differentials between self-employed and wage … considerably higher earnings than wage-employed workers. Furthermore, there is a significant and positive effect on earnings when …

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Educational mismatch and self-employment

Bender, Keith A.; Roche, Kristen - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 85-95

sample of workers in science and engineering fields, results show larger earnings penalties for mismatch among the self …

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - In: Review of Economics of the Household 9 (2011) 1, pp. 25-44

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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … growth than immigrants in wage/salary employment and are predicted to reach earnings parity after approximately 10 years in …

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Self-Employed Individuals, Time Use, and Earnings

Konietzko, Thorsten - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 36 (2015) 1, pp. 64-83

This paper analyzes the time allocation of self-employed individuals and the impact of housework activities on earnings …. While descriptive statistics and pooled OLS earnings regressions indicated a negative correlation between time spent on … housework activities and earnings, fixed effects earnings regressions only showed a significantly negative impact on monthly …

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Self-employed individuals, time use, and earnings

Konietzko, Thorsten - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

the impact of house-work on earnings of self-employed individuals using data from two German datasets. Self-employed women …. While descriptive statistics and pooled OLS earnings regressions show a negative impact of time spent on housework on … earnings, fixed-effects earnings regressions show only a negative impact on monthly earnings of self-employed men. This impact …

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The Labour Market Consequences of Self-employment Spells: European Evidence

Hyytinen, Ari; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

We examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European Community Household Panel. Unconditionally, those re-entering paid-employment appear to have considerably lower wages than those staying in the wage sector. This...

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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...

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