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relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale (NUTS-3) administrative data on immigrants' location in Italy, the … local presence of immigrant entrepreneurs (i.e. firms owned by foreign-born entrepreneurs) in the manufacturing sector, and …
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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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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 …
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employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …
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This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people's employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …
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" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship …I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young … individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and …
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Using a search model for Danish labor market entrants, we are one of the first studies to test whether second‐generation immigrants have the same job‐offer arrival and layoff rates as ethnic Danes have. We contribute to the search literature by incorporating matching as a way to ensure...
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This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally …
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This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … 18 percentage points lower for non-western migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is explained … indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation non-western migrants. On the other hand, the mobility …
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