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Immigration Policy and the Rise of Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2020

Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest … self-employment among other disadvantaged minority groups such as blacks and even a significant decline among whites … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …

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Weakness in emerging markets weighs on global growth

Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Hauber, Philipp; Jannsen, Nils; … - 2015

The world economy is expanding at a more moderate pace with growth momentum continuing to shift from emerging to advanced economies. World GDP will increase by 3.3 per cent this year - even some-what less than the already modest growth in the recent past. For 2016 and 2017 we expect growth to...

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World Economy Spring 2016 - Clouded outlook for the world economy

Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Hauber, Philipp; Jannsen, Nils; … - 2016

Global growth has slowed down recently. While the world economy should gradually regain pace over the coming quarters, overall growth momentum is expected to remain subdued. The recent drop in oil prices has not improved the outlook as it to a substantial degree signals weaker demand;...

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World Economy Autumn 2016 - World economic growth to pick up only gradually

Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Hauber, Philipp; Kooths, Stefan; … - 2016

During the first half of the year global growth remained sluggish. While activity in emerging economies stabilized, growth in advanced economies softened. Over the next two years, we expect the world economy to pick up pace gradually, although without turning into a strong synchronized global...

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World Economy Spring 2017 - World economy: Continued expansion amid increased uncertainties

Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Fiedler, Salomon; Hauber, Philipp; … - 2017

The world economy has gained traction in the course of 2016 despite elevated policy uncertainty and seems to have picked up further in the beginning of 2017. The change in the US government apparently has led to expectations of substantial policy stimulus, while a competitive valuation of...

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World Economy Winter 2017 - World economic upswing continues

Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Hauber, Philipp; Kooths, Stefan; … - 2017

The world economy is currently expanding strongly with upward momentum in almost every major economy. Global activity is set to expand by 3.8 percent, 0.1 percentage point above our September forecast and the strongest figure since 2011. We have also slightly revised up, to 3.9 percent, our...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Variables for the proportion of immigrants in … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and …

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A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980?s

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980?s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...

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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two groups decreased in the 1980?s. Given the high self-employment rates of this …-skilled natives are more likely to be self-employed than high-skilled immigrants. Models of the self-employment decision, controlling …

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