The number of women creating new businesses is increasing, but the number involved in entrepreneurial activities is still much lower than the number of men.To better understand this gender disparity, the career motivations, self-perceptions, and attitudes of adolescents interested in becoming...

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

When one analyses the influence of social identity on scholastic effort, ethnic identity largely contributes to determine it. In this paper, ethnic identity is meant as the attachment to one’s cultural heritage and the adaptation to host societies; this allows considering how conflicting...