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Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...

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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...

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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...

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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals

Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...

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Creative Unemployment

Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. We find that working in a company which is going to close down due to bankruptcy during the next...

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … individuals who are initially not employed respond more to high local unemployment rates by starting businesses than wage … influences resulting in higher levels of business creation. Using the regression estimates for the local unemployment rate …

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