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Mexican entrepreneurship: a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2006

Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U ….S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor differences in the age and education of Mexican born … the United States, however, estimates indicate that low levels of education and the youth of Mexican immigrants residing …

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Kick it like Özil? Decomposing the native-migrant education gap

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....

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Gender differences in business performance: evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2008

Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of several data sets (the International Social Survey...

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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects

Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - 2003

Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...

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Labor Market Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002

The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...

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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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University differences in the graduation of minorities in STEM fields: Evidence from California

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Hotz, Vincent Joseph - 2013

The low number of college graduates with science degrees - particularly among under-represented minorities - is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a...

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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - 2009

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...

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