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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 …
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We study immigrant entrepreneurship and firm ownership in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners (SBO). The …
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We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …
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Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one's own firm are important features of entrepreneurship …
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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...
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with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …
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This paper shows that providing undocumented immigrants with an immigration pardon, or amnesty, increases their … economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal … business registry, we study a 2018 policy shift in Colombia that made nearly half a million Venezuelan undocumented migrants …
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entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female …
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for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …
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underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …
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