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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291885
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 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/10010197083
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
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/10010506325
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228573
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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313956
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009
-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809043
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Mexican entrepreneurship : a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2006
for men, those who live in ethnic enclaves. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; Mexico ; Mexican-Americans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375894
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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909292
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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
-employment ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916998
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The self-employment of immigrants and natives in Sweden : to what extent is it the “immigrant group” or the “labour market context” that affects the self-employment of individuals...
Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - 2010
Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …-employment ; integration ; entrepreneurship ; multilevel logistic regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969799