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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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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2013
-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in … significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223620
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - 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/10013073864
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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/10013154483
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia - 2013
-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in … significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071756
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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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Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas and exports
Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2018
In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795104
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Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management : comparing configurations of native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms
Mostafiz, Md Imtiaz; Hughes, Mathew; Simeonova, Boyka; … - In: International journal of entrepreneurial behavior & research 29 (2023) 5, pp. 1099-1132
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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem
Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014
This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438892