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Mexican-American Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany – self-employed and salaried businesswomen – and investigate whether ethnicity is important...
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …
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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?
Bates, Timothy; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...
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Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S.: Do Cohort and Within Race Differences Exist?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper we ask three questions: First, is there evidence of a Black-White gap in self-employment between 1994-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this result? Second, do within race differences in self-employment exist among the U.S. born? Finally, do...
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