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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 immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program

Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies that provide visas to skilled entrepreneurs. This paper investigates whether these policies influence the founding location choice of immigrant founders, by leveraging the...

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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender …

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Rugged Entrepreneurs : The Geographic and Cultural Contours of New Business Formation

Barrios, John M.; Hochberg, Yael V.; Macciocchi, Daniele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How do geographic and historical-cultural factors shape new business formation? Using novel data on new business registrations, we document that 75% of the variation in new business formation is explained by time-invariant county-level factors and examine the extent to which such variation is...

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Black and White : Access to Capital among Minority-Owned Startups

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

We use confidential and restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey and matched administrative data on credit scores to explore racial disparities in access to capital for new business ventures. The novel results on racial inequality in startup financing indicate that black-owned...

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Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore co-ethnic hiring among new ventures using U.S. administrative data. Co-ethnic hiring is ubiquitous among immigrant groups, averaging about 22.5% and ranging from <2% to >40%. Co-ethnic hiring grows with the size of the local ethnic workforce, greater linguistic distance to English, lower...</2%>

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R. - 2015

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … interactions where non-work relationships facilitate the acquisition of sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies …

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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

Howell, Sabrina T. - 2019

. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

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And the Children Shall Lead : Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …

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