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Challenges experienced by immigrant entrepreneurs in a developing non-Western country : Malaysia
Hamizah Abd Hamid - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 3, pp. 7-25
provides a layer of knowledge in immigrant entrepreneurship activities conducted in developing non-Western countries, which is … a fertile area of interest in immigrant entrepreneurship. Practice-wise, this study provides useful evidence in … landscape for immigrants to conduct entrepreneurship activities. Contribution & Value Added: This research contributes to the …
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073864
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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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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870290
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia - 2013
-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in … significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071756
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Multicultural migrant firms : evidence from Italy
Arrighetti, Alessandro; Lasagni, Andrea; Semenza, Renata - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 11 (2023) 4, pp. 7-24
entrepreneurship and they play an important role in the processes of integration between actors of different cultures and nationalities … the relationship between migration and entrepreneurship highlighting the importance and specificity of MMFs, which is a … relevant under-researched segment of migrant entrepreneurship. Our work shows how the boundaries between native and immigrant …
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Openness and Technological Innovationsin Developing Countries:Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are importantchannels for the transfer of technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862588
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776490
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Growing Out of the Crisis : Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076149