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Handbook of research on ethnic minority entrepreneurship : a co-evolutionary view on resource management

Dana, Leo Paul (contributor) - 2007

-- Immigrant entrepreneurs in Germany / Maria Kontos -- Migrant entrepreneurship in Germany / Maggi W.H. Leung -- Ethnicity, gender … and entrepreneurship: Turkish entrepreneurs in Germany / Robert Putz, Verena Schreiber and Isabell Welpe -- Immigrant … entrepreneurship in India / David Blake Willis and J. Rajasekaran -- Immigrant entrepreneurs and the Israeli welfare state …

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Cases on entrepreneurship and diversity

Dhaliwal, Spinder (ed.) - 2024 - First edition

and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. With contributions from highly experienced academics from a variety of backgrounds …, it will help entrepreneurship educators and teachers to decolonise business and innovation curricula while reflecting on … Entrepreneurship and Diversity will be essential for students of such disciplines as business and entrepreneurship who wish to fully …

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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana; Yuksel, Mutlu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...

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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession

Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper demonstrates that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for low-skilled native workers, who are much less...

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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries

Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm’s outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...

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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers

Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...

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Necessity entrepreneurs : microenterprise education and economic development

Brewer, Jeremi (contributor); Gibson, Stephen W. (contributor) - 2014

'This groundbreaking exploration of the concept of necessity entrepreneurship cuts to the heart of the culture wars … entrepreneurship, microenterprise education and long-term economic development. An estimated one billion individuals in both developed … respective nations. This volume is the foundation upon which the budding discipline of necessity entrepreneurship can be built …

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How Much Is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs? Estimating the Elasticity of Job Creation

Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

In search and bargaining models, the effect of higher wages on employment is determined by the elasticity of the job creation curve. In this paper, we use U.S. data over the 1970-2007 period to explore whether labor market outcomes abide by the restrictions implied by such models and to evaluate...

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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...

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The Great Recession, Retirement and Related Outcomes

Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine retirement and related labor market outcomes for the Early Boomer cohort, those in their mid-fifties at the onset of the Great Recession. Outcomes are then compared with older cohorts at the same age. The Great Recession...

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