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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
for differences in socioeconomic background, occupation, regional differences in immigrant population proportions …
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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system
Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023
Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first … 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to … examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants. Higher immigrant firm ownership rates are mainly due to …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939208
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Self-Employment and Earnings Among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2021
for differences in socio-economic background, occupation, regional differences in immigrant population proportions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321257
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769704
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The Swiss Mass Immigration Initiative : the impact of increased policy uncertainty on expected firm behaviour
Abberger, Klaus; Dibiasi, Andreas; Siegenthaler, Michael; … - 2014
In Switzerland a sudden policy uncertainty shock happened in February 2014 with the close and largely unexpected acceptance of a referendum aiming at limiting free movement of persons. The referendum requires Switzerland to reintroduce annual quotas for immigrants within three years. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422826
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The international circulation of elites : knowledge, entrepreneurial and political
Solimano, Andrés; Avanzini, Diego - 2010
International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites, which is the focus of this paper. The paper offers a three-fold classification of elites: (a) knowledge elites, (b) entrepreneurial elites and (c) political elites. We explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697427
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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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Self-employment of foreigners as an innovative solution on the labor market in the European Union
Navickas, Valentinas; Grmanová, Eva; Gajda, Waldemar - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 21 (2020) 1, pp. 178-183
The main aim of this article is to identify certain specificity in self-employment of foreigners in EU countries and to find out whether the differences in self-employment of foreigners between countries are diminishing. Within the main objective, we have set two sub-objectives. The first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225018
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Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy
Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023
Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship … migrants and those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, while it is not significant for mixed immigrant-native couples, for highly …
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