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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 …

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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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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009

-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …

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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employment ; entrepreneurship …

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African Americans ̉pursuit of self-employment

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); … - 2007

differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ … predicted by one's race. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; entry barriers ; African American …

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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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September 11 and the rise of necessity self-employment among Mexican immigrants

Wang, Chunbei; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2019

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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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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Hispanic self-employment : a dynamic analysis of business ownership

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); Wang, Chunbei (contributor) - 2006

-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … factors in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across groups. We also show that the lower self-employment entry rates …. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; Hispanic …

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