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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2308 Sarit Cohen Goldner
Chemi Gotlibovski
Nava Kahana
The Role of Marriage in Immigrants’ Human Capital Investment under Liquidity Constraints
This paper presents a two-period human capital investment model of married and single immigrants under binding liquidity constraints, which explains alternative patterns in the host country's labor ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 983-1003)
D10, J24, J61
2307 Andrew Burke
Felix FitzRoy
Michael A. Nolan
What Makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘Employee or Entrepreneur’ Dichotomy
The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as ...
(published in: Small Business Economics 2008, 31, 93 - 115)
J23, C25
2305 David L. Dickinson
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis
Statistical discrimination occurs when distinctions between demographic groups are made on the basis of real or imagined statistical distinctions between the groups. While such discrimination is ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76 (1), 16-31)
J31, J71, C92
2304 Olivier L'Haridon
Franck Malherbet
Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies
The design of the employment protection legislation (EPL) is of a particular acuity in the European debate on the contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (3), 255-273)
J41, J48, J60
2303 Štepán Jurajda
Teodora Paligorova
Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe
This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay ...
(published as "Czech Female Managers and their Wages" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 342-351)
J31, J71, P31
2302 Suzanne Grazier
Peter J. Sloane
Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK
Many studies show that women are more risk averse than men. In this paper, following DeLeire and Levy (2004) for the US, we use family structure as a proxy for the degree of risk aversion to test the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 938-957)
J0, J2, K2
2301 Barry R. Chiswick
Jidong Huang
The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity
This paper analyzes the determinants of the earnings of American Jewish men using the 2000/01 National Jewish Population Survey. Non-response to the question on earnings is analyzed. Earnings are ...
(published in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2008, 47 (4), 694-709)
J31, J15, Z12, C81
2300 Laura V Zimmermann
Liliya Gataullina
Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (3), 235-239)
F22, J15, J16, J24, Z10
2299 Arne Uhlendorff
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives
Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 348-367)
C41, J61, J64
2298 Abdurrahman B. Aydemir
Arthur Sweetman
First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada
The educational and labor market outcomes of the first, first-and-a-half, second and third generations of immigrants to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows ...
(published as ''First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 215-70.)
J61, J62, I29
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