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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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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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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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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
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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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the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
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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 …
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entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and …
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