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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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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers
Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017
This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...
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Education and self-employment : South Asian immigrants in the US labor market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014
Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
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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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196029
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The impact of Syrian refugees on natives' labor market outcomes in Turkey : evidence from a quasi-experimental design
Ceritoglu, Evren; Yunculer, H. Burcu Gurcihan; Torun, … - 2015
Civil war in Syria, which started in March 2011, has led to a massive wave of forced immigration from the Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey. This paper exploits this natural experiment to estimate the impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey....
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Do E-Verify mandates improve labor market outcomes of low-skilled native and legal immigrant workers?
Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2015
We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on...
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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
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Superstition in the housing market
Fortin, Nicole Marie; Hill, Andrew J.; Huang, Jeff - 2013
We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...
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From aliens to citizens : the political incorporation of immigrants
Bevelander, Pieter; Spång, Mikael - 2014
This is a draft chapter for the Handbook on Economics of International Migration (Eds. B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller) and deals with the political incorporation of immigrants in host societies. Political incorporation is discussed with regard to the regulation of legal status, rights,...
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