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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not … working), and the choice between full-time paid work and self-employment. The choices are determined by the reservation wage … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762301
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2013
-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328882
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 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/10012005891
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not … working), and the choice between full-time paid work and self-employment. The choices are determined by the reservation wage … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards: Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479392
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The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market
Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597490
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959623
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Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and their Descendants
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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 the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703319
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2009
nonminority white female entrepreneurs and slightly less than observationally similar Latinas in wage/salary work. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269026
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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269421