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Coming to America : does immigrant's home country economic status impact the probability of self-employment in the U.S.?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie James - 2009
; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846995
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Self-employment in China : are rural migrant workers and urban residents alike?
Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013
This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and paid-employment obtained through a three-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700209
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By choice and by necessity : entrepreneurship and self-employment in the developing world
Margolis, David N. - 2014
Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of self-employment in the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370089
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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014
significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249399
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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States
Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021
Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793327
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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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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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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
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The persistence of self-employment across borders : new evidence on legal immigrants to the United States
Akee, Randall (contributor); Jaeger, David A. (contributor);  … - 2007
-employment has a significant effect on U.S. wages in either paid employment or self employment. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656890
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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001790863