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Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our...
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Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
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entrepreneurs to immigrants in wage/salary employment as well as native born business owners. We find that the returns to low … explained primarily by differences in the ethnic composition. Low-skilled female foreign born entrepreneurs are found to have …
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This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
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impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …
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We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate … entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …
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Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the … market for self-employment or entrepreneurs consists of a supply and demand side as well as the interaction between these two …
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Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the … entrepreneurs fare in the labor market compared to natives. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find …
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business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a …
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This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...
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