Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 541
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154483
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Migrant entrepreneurship : reflections on research and practice
Ram, Monder; Jones, Trevor; Villares-Varela, María - In: International small business journal : researching … 35 (2017) 1, pp. 3-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686602
Cover Image
Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830641
Cover Image
Prediction based on entrepreneurship-prone personality profiles: sometimes worse than the toss of a coin
Konon, Alexander; Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: Small Business Economics 53 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20
The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices--from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and advice? In psychological research, group profiles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249883
Cover Image
Radical innovation and its regional impact—a roadmap for future research
Audretsch, David; Fornahl, Dirk; Klarl, Torben - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2021) 2, pp. 1153-1156
, Entrepreneurship, and (Regional) Growth" and present a roadmap for future research in the area. This article argues that the link … between the literature on radical innovation, entrepreneurship, and (regional) growth is still an underresearched topic. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501277
Cover Image
Group conditions for entrepreneurial visions: role confidence, hierarchical congruences, and the imagining of future in entrepreneurial groups
Stamm, Isabell; Gutzeit, Marie - In: Small Business Economics 59 (2021) 3, pp. 1023-1041
asks how the content of entrepreneurial visions is shaped by the conditions of the group. Taking an entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501618
Cover Image
The determinants of bootstrap financing in crises: evidence from entrepreneurial ventures in the COVID-19 pandemic
Block, Joern H.; Fisch, Christian; Hirschmann, Mirko - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2021) 2, pp. 867-885
association between self-employment experience and bootstrap financing indicates that targeted entrepreneurship education programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502006
Cover Image
Small firms and the COVID-19 insolvency gap
Dörr, Julian Oliver; Licht, Georg; Murmann, Simona - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2021) 2, pp. 887-917
among financially weak, small firms, having potential long-term implications on entrepreneurship and economic recovery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502075