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Determinants of Business Success : An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia - 2007

Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in...

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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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 and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and Their Descendants

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self …-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to … survival probability in entrepreneurship for Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants, which does not carry on to their U …

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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved so Little Success in the United States?

Bates, Timothy - 2010

Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...

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Education and Self-Employment : South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market

Dutta, Nabamita - 2014

Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...

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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...

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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship : Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2015

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurship in the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic Monthly files of the...

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The experiences of male gay business owners in the UK

Galloway, Laura - In: International small business journal : researching … 30 (2012) 8, pp. 890-906

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Articulating the entrepreneurship career : a study of German women entrepreneurs

Braches, Birgit; Elliott, Carole - In: International small business journal : researching … 35 (2017) 5, pp. 535-557

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