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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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Ethnic minority self-employment : poor paid employment prospects push minority workers into working for themselves, often in low-reward work
Clark, Kenneth - 2015
groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430234
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Chapter 17. Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 877-911). 2015
an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship … the most 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025433
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-20
G23; G24; J15; J61; L5; L26; M12; M13; O31; O32; R11 </AbstractSection> Copyright Nathan; licensee Springer. 2014
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544679
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Racial Protests and Credit Access
Garcia, Raffi E.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544755
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Entrepreneurial finance, credit cards, and race
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Seamans, Robert C. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 106 (2012) 1, pp. 182-195
This paper examines the impact of financial deregulation on entrepreneurship. We assess the impact of credit card …
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Religious diversity and entrepreneurship in transition: lessons for policymakers
Nikolova, Elena; Simroth, Dora - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 1, pp. 1-21
Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, we show that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business. Although religious diversity also correlates with a higher start-up probability (following trial), this effect is driven by access to...
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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 27 (2015) 5/6, pp. 307-333
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504682
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Does the level of economic development and the market size of immigrants' country of birth matter for their engagement in entrepreneurial activities in the USA? Evidence from the P...
Krichevskiy, Dmitriy; Qirjo, Dhimitri; Chrysostome, … - In: Journal of small business and entrepreneurship : JSBE ; … 28 (2016) 3, pp. 223-249
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