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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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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. …

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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

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2019

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

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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 …

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship

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

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

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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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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 …

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