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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532783
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Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards: differences between immigrants and the native born
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However … between social capital and the prevalence of entrepreneurship. We also investigate the relationship between social capital and … that are correlated with entrepreneurship, but volunteering matters equally for both groups. The positive association …
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2013
entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using a representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater Dublin Area …, we find a significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532802
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using a representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater Dublin Area …, we find a significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839545
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : continued losses and the partial rebound in May 2020
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
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The impact of Covid-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
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Sales losses in the first quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from California administrative data
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2021
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Akee, Randall Kekoa Quinones; Jaeger, David A.; … - 2007
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533028
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Jaeger, David; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Akee, Randall … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971281
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India
Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010
We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the state-time variation in reservation in state legislative...
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