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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie F. - 2004
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? : distinctions by entry visa
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
permanent residence do not outperform natives for any of the outcomes considered. -- Immigration ; innovation ; entrepreneurship …
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Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives
Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018
The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...
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Which Immigrants are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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Demographic factors, family background and prior self-employment on entrepreneurial intention : Vietnamese business students are different : why?
Nguyen, Cuong - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 8 (2018) 10, pp. 1-17
include parents’ employment status and parents’ immigrant status. Results evidence somewhat higher entrepreneurial intention … urban cities versus non-immigrant parents. Prior experience in self-employment also increases entrepreneurial intention …
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants’ schooling per se, that is the major driver …
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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The heterogeneous employment outcomes of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2020
. Immigrant women are also found to be particularly affected, especially those originating from outside the EU. As regards …
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When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State
Bratsberg, Bernt - 2007
immigrants worked and their employment rate exceeded that of natives. But, about ten years upon arrival, immigrant employment … started a sharp and steady decline. By 2000, the immigrant employment rate was 50 percent, compared to 87 percent for the … native comparison group. To some extent, the decline in immigrant employment can be explained by immigrants being …
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