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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420344
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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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Latent entrepreneurship in transition economies : some entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs face financial and bureaucratic barriers to starting a business
Atasoy, Hilal - 2015
Because entrepreneurial activity can stimulate job creation and long-term economic growth, promoting entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431688
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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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Rediscovering the craft entrepreneur : a personality approach
Runst, Petrik; Thomä, Jörg - 2022
entrepreneur - as a classic form of strategic entrepreneurship. Based on a large, representative German household panel data set … craft entrepreneurs from other types of entrepreneurship. The paper concludes with implications for policy and research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013418955
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Entrepreneurial opportunities and working conditions of self-employed online freelancers in the platform economy : Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Muszyński, Karol - 2023
This paper examines the experiences of self-employed online freelancers working on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on interviews with freelancers and platform managers and experts in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. Their experiences during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014491316
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Inheritance, bequests, and labor supply : inheritance-related work disincentives can be strong, but labor supply could increase if bequests facilitate entrepreneurship
Cox, Donald - 2014
the opposite, by facilitating entrepreneurship among those whose ambition to start a business had been stymied by a lack …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418681
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538911
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Foreign-born status, gender, and Hispanic business ownership across U.S. Metropolitan labor markets : a multilevel approach
Wang, Qingfang - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 29 (2015) 4, pp. 328-340
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011562555