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Entrepreneurial tendencies of migrants working in the care sector in Poland
Maj, Jolanta; Kubiciel-Lodzińska, Sabina - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 3, pp. 27-46
entrepreneurship. Contribution & Value Added: The article contributes to the research on migrant entrepreneurship by analysing …
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Mexican entrepreneurship: a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2006
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
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African Americansà pursuit of self-employment
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2007
differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ …
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Who are the microenterprise owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008
Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...
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The persistence of self-employment across borders: new evidence on legal immigrants to the United States
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jaeger, David A.; Tatsiramos, … - 2007
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our...
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 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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Who becomes an entrepreneur? Labor market prospects and occupational choice
Poschke, Markus - 2008
start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage work …. The paper shows that these facts can be explained in a model of occupational choice between wage work and entrepreneurship …
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Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment
Henley, Andrew - 2009
Contemporary dynamic theories of self-employment choice focus on occupational switching costs, and the risk associated with entrepreneurial income streams. However little or no previous research has addressed the question of what factors determine the length of time that it takes aspiring...
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'I want to, but I also need to': start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2009
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
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