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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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The self-employment of immigrants and natives in Sweden: To what extent is it the 'immigrant group' or the 'labour market context' that affects the self-employment of individuals i...
Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - 2010
Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269889
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie F. - 2004
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany : Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272299
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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices: The case of religion and entrepreneurship
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
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Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment
Wadensjö, Eskil; Andersson, Pernilla - 2004
In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the...
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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : Native men, turks, and other migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie F.; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003
Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in … selfemployed individuals and understand their underlying drive into self-employment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …
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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
for differences in socioeconomic background, occupation, regional differences in immigrant population proportions …
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Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009
cells are based on education/experience, our results suggest a negative relationship between native wages and immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271579
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Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?
Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2004
When studying income differences and income distribution, the self-employed are often excluded from the population studied. There are several good reasons for this, for example that incomes from self-employment are not reported to the same extent as incomes from being an employee. On the other...
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