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-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …
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Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However … between social capital and the prevalence of entrepreneurship. We also investigate the relationship between social capital and … that are correlated with entrepreneurship, but volunteering matters equally for both groups. The positive association …
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We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
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less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship … Mexican-Americans in the U.S. economy. -- Mexican-Americans ; entrepreneurship ; inequality …
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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...
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significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …
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