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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Talking Business: New Evidence on How Language Shapes Economic Behaviour

Campo, Francesco; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2020

We provide a large scale within-country analysis of the effect of language future time reference (FTR) on the choice of being an entrepreneur using individual-level data from Switzerland, a country characterized by a unique long-standing multilingualism and a large share of immigrant population....

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Discrimination and the effects of drug testing on black employment

Wozniak, Abigail - 2012

Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing,...

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Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment

Wozniak, Abigail - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander S.; … - 2022

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...

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What Works in Supporting Women-Led Businesses?

Ubfal, Diego - 2024

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...

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Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance

Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014

specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program …

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The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View

Hessels, Jolanda; Naudé, Wim - 2017

Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated …. It is moreover also because there is no unified scientific approach towards the role of entrepreneurship in economic …

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Ethnic diversity and team performance: A field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...

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