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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon

Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010

significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …

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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009

-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …

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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employment ; entrepreneurship …

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African Americans ̉pursuit of self-employment

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); … - 2007

differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ … predicted by one's race. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; entry barriers ; African American …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591481

Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 933-952

Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today’s skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Utilizing data from the survey of income and program participation, this paper provides an analysis of the economic returns to business ownership among low-skilled workers and...

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African Americans’ pursuit of self-employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 1, pp. 73-86

We examine causes of black/white gaps in self-employment entry rates in the United States by recognizing that industry context heavily shapes impacts of owner resource endowments on the likelihood of successful entry. Barriers to entry, briefly stated, are high in some lines of business and low...

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