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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009

nonminority white female entrepreneurs and slightly less than observationally similar Latinas in wage/salary work. -- Self-employment …

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

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

the economic returns to business ownership among low-skilled workers and addresses the essential question of whether self-employment … substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … the returns to low-skilled self-employment among men are relatively high we find that wage/salary employment is a …

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … entrepreneurs to immigrants in wage/salary employment as well as native born business owners. We find that the returns to low …-skilled self-employment among immigrants is higher than it is among natives but also that wage/salary employment is a more …

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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? : labor market effects of immigrant legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph M. - 2010

employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants …

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Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); Tyler, John H. (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary assumptions for a difference-in-difference estimator, which uses a change in the GED passing standard, to yield unbiased estimates of the signaling value of the GED for marginal...

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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon

Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010

nationally representative samples of adults to investigate the role of financial constraints and other factors delineating self-employment … significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …

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H-1Bs : how do they stack up to US born workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hayes, Joseph M. - 2011

Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the 2009 American Community Survey, we analyze earnings differences between H-1B visa holders and US born workers in STEM occupations. The data indicate that H-1Bs are younger and...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...

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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011

. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …

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