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Self-employment amongst migrant groups : new evidence from England and Wales
Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Robinson, Catherine - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 48 (2017) 4, pp. 1047-1069
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829325
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Immigration and Business Dynamics : Evidence from U.S. Firms
Mahajan, Parag - 2022
establishment entry and exit drive immigrant-induced job creation and a rightward shift of the productivity distribution in U … general equilibrium model proposes a mechanism that ties immigrant workers to high-productivity firms and shows how accounting … for changes to the employer distribution can yield substantially larger estimates of immigrant-generated economic surplus …
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Push and pull factors and Hispanic self-employment in the USA
Fisher, Monica Grace; Lewin, Paul - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 51 (2018) 4, pp. 1055-1070
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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage gap between them. Using a simple production function framework, we show … that this labor market competition channel can explain about one quarter of the large increase in the average immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216254
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Subjective well-being among the self-employed in Europe : macroeconomy, gender and immigrant status
Sevä, Ingemar Johansson; Vinberg, Stig; Nordenmark, Mikael - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 46 (2016) 2, pp. 239-253
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How do migrants choose their destination country?: an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264522
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Revisiting native and immigrant entrepreneurial activity
Lassmann, Andrea; Busch, Christian - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 45 (2015) 4, pp. 841-873
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The making of entrepreneurs in Germany: are native men and immigrants alike?
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 26 (2006) 3, pp. 279-300
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