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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...

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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Immigration policy and the rise of self-employment among Mexican immigrants

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2020

Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest immigrant population in the country. This is an interesting yet puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnated growth of self-employment among other disadvantaged minority...

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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? : evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014

Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...

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Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? : a systematic review of the empirical evidence

Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2020

Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to different counteracting measures. To this end, we reviewed...

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Mexican entrepreneurship : a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2006

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...

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Social-family network and self-employment : evidence from temporary rural-urban migrants in China/ Junfu Zhang; Zhong Zhao

Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - 2011

We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test … this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … social-family network exactly because he is self-employed. For this reason, a simple correlation between the probability of …

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The impact of 9/11 and the London bombings on the employment and earnings of U.K. Muslims

Rabby, Faisal; Rodgers, William M. - 2010

Using a difference-in-differences framework, this paper estimates the impact that Britain's July 2005 bombings had on the labor market outcomes of UK residents who are either Muslim by religious affiliation or whose nativity profiles are similar to the terrorists. We find a 10 percentage point...

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The duration of immigrants' unemployment spells : evidence from Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen - 2000

Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells differ from natives', and if so, how the difference vary with time spent in Sweden and across immigrant cohorts. A unique data set taken from the Swedish unemployment registers is...

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2012

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian,...

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