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Mixed entrepreneurship and new migrant enterprise in the UK

Jones, Trevor; Ram, Monder; Edwards, Paul K.; … - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 26 (2014) 5/6, pp. 500-520

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Migrant entrepreneurship : reflections on research and practice

Ram, Monder; Jones, Trevor; Villares-Varela, María - In: International small business journal : researching … 35 (2017) 1, pp. 3-18

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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship : Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2015

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship …

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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...

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Enterprising Women in Southern Africa : When Does Land Ownership Matter?

Brixiová, Zuzana - 2020

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...

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Gender Disparities in Employment and Earnings in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017

In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing on the country's first two (2007 and 2010) Labor Force Surveys. We find that even though the global financial crisis had a less severe effect on the labor market outcomes of...

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Assessing Gender Gaps in Employment and Earnings in Africa : The Case of Eswatini

Brixiová, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021

Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have...

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On immigration and native entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

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Women entrepreneurs : "we cannot have change unless we have men in the room"

Kamberidou, Irene - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 2 (2013), pp. 1-17

What is being done to support female entrepreneurship and in particular promote the ways in which information and …'s entrepreneurship and how ICT facilitates and fosters it. The European Commission is dynamically promoting, supporting, and encouraging … female entrepreneurship. Europe needs more women entrepreneurs and actions are being taken to overcome the obstacles and …

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