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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - 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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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118276