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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 …

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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...

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Skills, scope, and success : an empirical look at the start-up process in creative industries in Germany

Kohn, Karsten; Wewel, Solvejg A. - 2018

household income. Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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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...

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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019

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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 rise of female entrepreneurs : new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints

Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - 2015

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : a critical review

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015

general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …

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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015

We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...

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