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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011536
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small business borrowers achieved so little success in the United States?
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 25 (2011) 3, pp. 255-266
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009
-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809043
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909292
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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
-employment ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916998
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 33 (2009) 4, pp. 427-439
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Mexican-American self-employment : a dynamic analysis of business ownership
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - In: Ethnicity and labor market outcomes, (pp. 197-227). 2009
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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