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Coming to America: does immigrant's home country economic status impact the probability of self-employment in the U.S.?

Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo; Belton, Willie - 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 racial saving gap enigma: unraveling the role of institutions

Belton, Willie; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2008

evidence of the long-lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and culture. In this paper, we provide an … scaffolding erected many years earlier. Using a novel within race decomposition we provide evidence that past institutions …

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The role of information and institutions in understanding the black-white gap in self-employment

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie - 2008

literature also provides evidence of the long lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and decision making …

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