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I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze...
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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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Auf Grundlage des Panels Arbeitsmarkt und Soziale Sicherung wird in der vorliegenden Studie die Einkommenssituation von …This study investigates the income of self-employed based on the panel Labour Markets and Social Security of the …
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Based on income tax data, statistical information can be compiled on self-employed and business start-ups by field of …, approx. one million are old age pensioners (with additional income from self-employment) and two million part-time self …-employed (i.e. with secondary income). 1.6 million self-employed operate in the liberal pro-fessions, thereof 57 % as main …
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. Ursächlich für den Bezug von ergänzenden Leistungen der Grundsi-cherung sind in den meisten Fällen deutlich rückläufige Einkommen …We analyze the situation of self-employed receiving means-tested benefits in Germany. A severe loss of income is the … education and working hours, the income of the self-employed actually is much worse in comparison to paid employees who also …
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Im Bereich der Geschlechterforschung wird eine ungleiche Teilhabe von Männern und Frauen am Arbeitsmarkt beobachtet … Lücke zwischen durchschnittlichen Einkommen der Männer im Vergleich zu den Frauen wird regelmäßig als Gender … Frauen und Männern herangezogen. Die ungleichen Einkommen resultieren hierbei nicht allein auf einer unterschiedlichen …
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Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates - and that this … effect is more negative for skilled and white South African native workers - but not on total income. These results are …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U ….S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to existing literature by decomposing income … determinants of immigration. Models that include observations with zero flow values find that recent male immigrants respond to …
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