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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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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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Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets
Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - In: Journal of Urban Economics 84 (2014) C, pp. 67-85
We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123900
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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants vs Natives
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124236
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition; self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497816
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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580140
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Spurring growth in lagging regions in Slovak Republic
Demmou, Lilas; Haluš, Martin; Machlica, Gabriel; … - 2015
Regional inequality in Slovakia is among the highest in the OECD and is increasing. The main reason for regional disparity is the combination of low economic growth and job creation in the eastern and central part of the country and insufficient labour mobility to the west, in particular by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399343
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Skills and inclusive growth in Sweden
Pareliussen, Jon K.; Bussi, Margherita; André, Christophe - 2015
A highly skilled workforce is crucial to sustain competitiveness and contain the rise in income inequality. Recent surveys of adult skills and educational performance suggest that younger cohorts are doing less well than their predecessors. Many immigrants struggle both in school and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399516
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The German labour market : preparing for the future
Hüfner, Felix; Klein, Caroline - 2012
The strength of the German labour market response to the financial crisis of 2008-09 demonstrated the benefits of past labour market reforms, which raised work incentives, improved job matching and increased working hour flexibility. Going forward, the government should build on this success and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690912