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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international business program in the Netherlands. We exploit the …
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … 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 differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735636
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796455
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What's the Difference?! Gender, Personality, and the Propensity to Start a Business
Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583491
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700965
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763875
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Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527308
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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574578
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … Netherlands. Individuals with more varied work experience seems indeed more likely to successfully start up a new business and …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884235
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Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887059