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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the self …
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...
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Performance pay and within-firm wage inequality
Barth, Erling; Bratsberg, Bernt; Haegeland, Torbjørn; … - 2008
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Assimilation effects on infant mortality among immigrants in Norway
Kinge, Jonas Minet; Kornstad, Tom - 2013
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Maximizing the discounted tax revenue in a mature oil province
Lindholt, Lars (contributor) - 2008
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Engel elasticities,pseudo-maximum likelihood estimation and bootstrapped standard errors : a case study
Skjerpen, Terje (contributor) - 2008
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Lohnspreizung und Arbeitslosigkeit : theoretische Erklärungsansätze und Stand empirischer Forschung
Kohnz, Simone; Erber, Georg - 2000
. Entwicklungen in Deutschland 5.1. Entwicklung der Lohngleichheit 5.2. Trade-off zwischen Arbeitslosigkeit und Lohnspreizung 6 ….S. during the 1990s compared to continental Europe and Germany in particular has lead to the statement of the trade … supply side conditions for skill formation. By summing up empirical research results on this issue for the U.S. and Germany …
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Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …
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Multi-factor Gegenbauer processes and European inflation rates
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2009
, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest that inflation in France and Italy is nonstationary. However, while for the … former country this applies both to the zero and the seasonal frequencies, in the case of Italy the nonstationarity comes …
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Measuring income risk
Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen; … - 2000
We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income risk of demographic and labour market factors....
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