We study the assimilation of ethnic minority individuals to the native labor market and the impact of integration policies on assimilation. In our model, ethnic individuals choose between 1. entrepreneurship, 2. assimilating to the native labor market, and 3. being employed by co-ethnic...

Obesity incidence has reached pandemic levels, which is accompanied by high incidence and poor prognosis for various types of cancers including gastrointestinal ones. Mechanisms underlying the association postulated including elevated levels of insulin, IGF-I, and altered adipokine...

Cyber insurance is a valuable approach to mitigate further the cyber risk and its loss in addition to the deployment of technological cyber defense solutions such as intrusion detection systems and firewalls. An effective cyber insurance policy can reduce the number of successful cyber attacks...

This paper studies how population aging affects individuals’ choice between entrepreneurship and employment by enterprises. We develop a theoretical model where individuals are different in their entrepreneurial ability. A representative worker integrates the professional status of all workers...

We propose a new method for calculating factor spatial misallocation independent of the HK model. We apply this method and firm microdata to assess spatial misallocation in China from 1998 to 2015. The results show that factor spatial misallocation showed an upward trend from 1998 to 2007 and a...