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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641423
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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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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228573
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
industries heavily affected by set-asides and mostly benefited the better educated. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; race …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727736
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009
-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809043
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909292
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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
-employment ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916998
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The self-employment of immigrants and natives in Sweden : to what extent is it the “immigrant group” or the “labour market context” that affects the self-employment of individuals...
Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - 2010
Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …-employment ; integration ; entrepreneurship ; multilevel logistic regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969799
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064537
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Black-White gap in self-employment in the US : do cohort and within race differences exist?
Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo; Belton, Willie James - 2010
In this paper we ask three questions: First, is there evidence of a Black-White gap in self-employment between 1994-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this result? Second, do within race differences in self-employment exist among the U.S. born? Finally, do...
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