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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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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...
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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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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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Since the September 11 attacks (9/11), the U.S. has seen a tightening of immigration policies. Previous studies find that stricter immigration enforcement has the unintended effect of pushing undocumented immigrants into self-employment. This paper builds on the literature to better understand...
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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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develop professionally and succeed as an entrepreneur? What are the major barriers to successful entrepreneurship preventing … spotlight gender gaps in entrepreneurship as well as the sovalued career-family balance, while still arguing that further … research is needed. They also agree that successful entrepreneurship requires digital skills along with the drive for …
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Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today’s skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Utilizing data from the survey of income and program participation, this paper provides an analysis of the economic returns to business ownership among low-skilled workers and...
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