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We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very …
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This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...
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Selbständigen als Freiberufler und Unternehmer sowie den abhängig Beschäftigten. Neu sind unsere ersten Längsschnittergebnisse aus …: Die Einkommen der Selbständigen fluktuieren stark für Unternehmer (Gewerbetreibende) nicht aber für Freie Berufe … Statistics and focus on top incomes for important labour market groups: the self-employed (as freelancers and entrepreneurs) and …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self-employment, making it a somewhat dubious proxy. This...
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Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
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entrepreneurs to immigrants in wage/salary employment as well as native born business owners. We find that the returns to low … explained primarily by differences in the ethnic composition. Low-skilled female foreign born entrepreneurs are found to have …
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market for self-employment or entrepreneurs consists of a supply and demand side as well as the interaction between these two …
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Entrepreneurial activity differs substantially across countries. While cultural differences have often been proposed as an explanation, measuring a country's cultural characteristics suffers from various problems. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that cultural factors influence...
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intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …
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The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...
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