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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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Entrepreneurial earnings and entrepreneurial choice in a search and matching model of the labor market

Lisi, Gaetano - In: Journal of small business and entrepreneurship : JSBE ; … 29 (2017) 3, pp. 237-249

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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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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: a simultaneous probit approach

Parker, Simon C. - 2005

This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...

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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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Mexican-American entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008

less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …

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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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