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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 …

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Immigration Policy and the Rise of Self-Employment Among Mexican Immigrants

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2021

Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest immigrant population in the country. This is an interesting yet puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnated growth of self-employment among other disadvantaged minority...

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September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment Among Mexican Immigrants

Wang, Chunbei - 2019

Since the September 11 attacks (9/11), the U.S. has seen a tightening of immigration policies. Previous studies find that stricter immigration enforcement has the unintended effect of pushing undocumented immigrants into self-employment. This paper builds on the literature to better understand...

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Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023

Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship …

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The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Ohlsson, Henrik - 2010

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …

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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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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union : An Overview

Kahanec, Martin - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Employment Effects of State Legislation Against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers

Bohn, Sarah - 2012

We analyze the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled Arizona workers, with a focus on the states' unauthorized population. The intent of LAWA was to limit unauthorized workers' economic opportunities as a way to deter further illegal...

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Children, Kitchen, Church : Does Ethnicity Matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...

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The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households : Evidence from Italy

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2018

Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but only above the median of the wealth distribution, with...

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