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Self-Employment in China: Are Rural Migrant Workers and Urban Residents Alike?
Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and paid-employment obtained through a three-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734427
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Self-employment in China: Are rural migrant workers and urban residents alike?
Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013
This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and paid-employment obtained through a three-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291314
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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403371
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Immigration policy and entrepreneurship
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286897
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Does Higher Education Make You More Entrepreneurial? Causal Evidence from China
Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021
Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597456
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Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship
Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021
an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658165
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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2023
We investigate the effect of exposure to air pollution on an individual's likelihood towards entrepreneurship using … panel data in China. To address omitted variable bias and endogeneity arising from self-selection into entrepreneurship and … propensity for entrepreneurship and a 34 percentage points decrease in the likelihood of entrepreneurial diversification. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377222