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Local Shocks and Internal Migration : The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US
Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés P.; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese import competition and the introduction of...
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Do Low-skilled Immigrants Improve Native Productivity but Worsen Local Amenities? Learning from the South Korean Experience
Kim, Hyejin; Lee, Jongkwan; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this study, we first evaluate the effect of a significant increase in low-skilled immigration in Korean municipalities from 2010-2015 on the internal migration of natives. Using Korean survey data we are able to distinguish between natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons....
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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data
Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...
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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK
Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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Promoting women.s economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection
Otobe, Naoko - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women.s economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO.s perspectives on gender dimensions of employment prom
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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries
Bruck, Tilman; Naude, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the …
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Postmaterialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations
Uhlaner, L.M.; Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2006
distinction is made between nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and a combination of the two, referred to as total … entrepreneurial activity, as defined within the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The model is also tested for the rate of …
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Entrepreneurship and Welfare
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the per capita consumption xpenditure …
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Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000
The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471152
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Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment : Evidence from Intergenerational Links
Dunn, Thomas - 1996
The environment for business creation is central to economic policy, as entrepreneurs are believed to be forces of innovation, employment and economic dynamism. We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) to investigate the relative importance of financial and human capital...
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