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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 … service occupations (employment polarization), experienced earnings growth at the tails of the distribution (wage polarization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079230
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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
employment, the median and higher percentiles of the firm size distribution, and the dispersion and skewness of employment all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884221
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Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data
Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, V. Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959618
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Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959718
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Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences
Fouarge, Didier; Kriechel, Ben; Dohmen, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
risks and measures of occupational earnings risks and employment risk that we derive from a large administrative data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959744
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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview
Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the highest and lowest paid occupations. Analyzing this phenomenon within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010648184
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Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763618
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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
choosing self-employment. Very limited previous research has addressed the question of why individuals report that they have … chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first concerns … motivations that they report for choosing self-employment. Factor analysis reveals a number of different dimensions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763629
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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential … Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the … years-since-migration exhibits a U-shape. During the first years since migration the likelihood of self-employment decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763736
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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763869