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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/10010329195
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Hispanic self-employment: a dynamic analysis of business ownership
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2006
-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … factors in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across groups. We also show that the lower self-employment entry rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267635
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African Americansà pursuit of self-employment
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2007
differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268143
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269026
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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269421
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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269560
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States?
Bates, Timothy; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa - 2010
Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the US context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274592
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Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
financial capital "intensiveness", or entry barriers, is effective in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247699
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Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … factors in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across groups. We also show that the lower self-employment entry rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763550
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763875