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379 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4280
Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?
Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2010, 111-154
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4245
Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?
Mirjam C. van Praag
published in: Handbook of Research on Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4245
Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?
Mirjam C. van Praag
published in: Handbook of Research on Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4221
How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?
Susanne Prantl, Alexandra Spitz-Oener
published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 769-802
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4211
Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Robin Douhan, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4193
Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice
Roger Ham, Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Robert Wells
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (7), 636-651
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4105
Occupational Choice: Personality Matters
Roger Ham, Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Robert Wells
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4050
Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?
Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger, Ute Leuschner
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (2-3), 214-238
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3974
Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Christopher Dawson, Andrew Henley, Paul L. Latreille
published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3970
This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
David Autor, David Dorn
published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2009, 99 (2), 45-51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3969
Switching Costs and Occupational Transition into Self-Employment
Andrew Henley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3922
Return Migration and Occupational Choice
Matloob Piracha, Florin Vadean
published in: World Development, 2010, 38(8), 1141-1155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3916
Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach
Omar Arias, Melanie Khamis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3886
So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Estimating the Effects of Economic Reform on Occupational Mobility in Estonia
Nauro F. Campos, Aurelijus Dabušinskas
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 25 (2), 261-275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3816
Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Markus Poschke
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (3), 693-710
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3675
The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing
Morris M. Kleiner, Alan B. Krueger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3581
A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed
Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3571
The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?
Bertrand Candelon, Arnaud Dupuy, Luis A. Gil-Alana
published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41, 2483-93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3562
Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis
Juan D. Barón, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 227 - 246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3549
The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sandra Sookram, Eric Strobl
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (1), 1-10
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