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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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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272328
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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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The labour market position of second-generation immigrants in Belgium
Corluy, Vincent; Haemels, Joost; Marx, Ive; Verbist, … - 2015
Belgium has one of the largest gaps in labour market outcomes between natives and individuals of foreign origin. One might expect that the children of migrants (the so-called second generation) would perform better than the first generation, as they ought to have a better knowledge of the local...
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Intergenerational returns to migration? Comparing educational performance on both sides of the German border
Luthra, Renee Reichl - 2010
This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
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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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Geography and insolation in 19th century US African-American and white statures
Carson, Scott Alan - 2008
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. Moreover, while much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century institutional arrangements were related to black stature....
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Racial differences in body-mass indices for men imprisoned in 19th century US prisons: A multinomial approach
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...
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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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