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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420344

Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2019

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017628

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262281

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

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307352

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

Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404907

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329195

Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120549

Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531772