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

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...

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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 …

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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 …