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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 …
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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … times greater than other immigrant groups, and Gujarati-speaking Indians are similarly 108 times more concentrated in … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model's underlying mechanisms. …
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immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage …
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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...
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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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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 …
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This paper theoretically investigates how labor-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal and self-enforcing agreements to motivate workers. We characterize profit-maximizing equilibria and derive the following results. First, an increase in the supply of homogenous workers...
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