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IZA Discussion Paper No. 6200
Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Chihmao Hsieh, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6193
Credit Constraints and Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, Zuzana Brixiova, Leonce Ndikumana
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6175
The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Claudia Senik
published as 'Why are the French so Unhappy? The Cultural Dimension of Happiness' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 379-401.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6166
It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog, Mirjam C. van Praag
published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40 (2), 249-268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6157
Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Daniel S. J. Lechmann, Claus Schnabel
published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (1), 59-76
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6144
Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK
Stephen Drinkwater, Catherine Robinson
revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 100-112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6130
Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences
Michal Myck, Radim Bohacek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6119
Sizing It Up: Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27
Amelie F. Constant
published in: European Migration and Asylum Policies: Coherence or Contradiction, C. Gortázar, C. Parra, B. Segaert, and C. Timmerman, editors. Bruylant: Belgium, 2012, 49-77
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6114
The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6111
Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
Benjamin Elsner
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2013, 91(1), 154-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6111
Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
Benjamin Elsner
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2013, 91(1), 154-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6103
Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates, Simon C. Parker
published as 'Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others: Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-specific Barriers' in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29(2), 232–251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6080
The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements across Socio-Economic Groups
Gaetano Basso, Mathias Dolls, Werner Eichhorst, Thomas Leoni, Andreas Peichl
published in: Intereconomics, 2012, 47 (4), 217-223.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6075
Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU
Corrado Giulietti, Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 24-38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6068
Can Higher Employment Levels Bring Lower Poverty in the EU? Regression Based Simulations of the Europe 2020 Target
Ive Marx, Pieter Vandenbroucke, Gerlinde Verbist
revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2012, 22 (5) 472– 486
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6041
The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani
Second R&R Journal of Political Economy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6018
Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan
Almas Heshmati, Nabaz T. Khayyat
published as 'Analysis of Landmine Fatalities and Injuries in the Kurdistan Region' in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30(5), 2015, 2591-2615.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5993
The Frisch Elasticity in the Mercosur Countries: A Pseudo-Panel Approach
Roberto González, Hector Sala
published in: Development Policy Review, 2015, 33 (1), 107-131
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5988
Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Albert N. Link, Christopher J. Ruhm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5971
Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP
Eirini Andriopoulou, Panos Tsakloglou
published in Research on Economic Inequality Vol. 23 "Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility" (eds T.I. Garner and K.S. Short), 2015, pp 23-70
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