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Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884310
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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548723
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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703674