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The dynamics of referral hiring and racial inequality: evidence from Brazil
Miller, Conrad; Schmutte, Ian - 2021
to hire candidates and less likely to dismiss employees of the same race as the founder, but these differences diminish …
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The effect of immigration on native earnings
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2000
This study investigates the extent of labour market competition among nativeDutch workers and ethnicminorities, using national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics ofthe CBS. Firstly, the directeffect of immigrants on local labour markets is considered. It is shown thatethnic...
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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries
Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives
Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018
The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...
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Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.
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Human capital diversity and entrepreneurship : results from the regional individual skill dispersion nexus on self-employment activity
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2013 - This version: 20.12.2013
Human capital has been shown to be highly important in the venture creation process. In this study, we account for the fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use German survey data, which allow us to focus on a specific...
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What makes a 'jack-of-all-trades'?
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2009
Das Papier untersucht die 'Jack-of-all-Trades'-Hypothese. Diese unterstellt, dass nicht die Höhe der Produktivität eines Individuums ausschlaggebend ist für eine selbständige Aktivität, sondern deren Bandbreite an Fähigkeiten oder Erfahrung (Lazear 2005). Die Analyse konzentriert sich auf...
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Family unification, siblings, and skills
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
family members. Although emphasizing the importance of the nuclear family, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and a … criteria matched to 1990 Census data, we examine the effect of family admissions on immigrant education, selfemployment, and … earnings. Of particular relevance to the current debate, we also examine the effect of one of the family-based admission …
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US immigration policy at a crossroads
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013
its family-based admissions system or move towards a skills-based system. This paper analyzes these issues culling … investment ; skill transferability ; opportunity cost ; learning transferability ; family-based admissions ; permanence …
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The effects of immigration on wages in three European countries
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives' wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives' wages and no dominant robust...
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