Self-employment: does parental cultural diversity matter?

Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?

Does Wage Persistence Matter for Employment Fluctuations ?

Recent work by Robert Shimer (2005) has stressed the difficulties of the standard Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides (1994) model in explaining the cyclical movement of unemployment. As potential mechanism behind observed employment dynamics, several papers (e.g., Shimer 2004, Robert Hall 2005, and Hall and Paul Milgrom 2008) have suggested rigidities in the wage setting process th...

Reconciling gender differences in the returns to education in self-employment: Does occupation matter?

Compared to self-employed men, self-employed women have more education but considerably lower earnings, generating differences in the returns to education by gender. This paper finds evidence that men typically benefit from a complementary relationship between education and earnings. However, women are heterogenous in their returns to education. Women who self-employ in traditionally female occ...

Group Diversity and Creativity: Does Anonymity Matter?

This study expands on the current body of research examining technology-supported groups, individual creativity, and group diversity. By incorporating each of these elements into the experimental design, our objective was to determine how technology can best be leveraged to promote group creativity. We argue that diverse groups who are visually anonymous – i.e., they make use of the anonymity f...

1 Does Employment Generation Really Matter for Poverty Reduction ?

In this paper we analyze whether the employment/productivity profile of growth as well as its sectoral pattern matter for poverty reduction. We also identify some conditions of the labor market which are associated with employment intensive growth or specific sectoral growth. We find that, in the short run, while the overall employment intensity of growth does not matter for poverty reduction, ...