The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non … provides an opportunity for human and physical capital accumulation but, at the same time, may lead to a loss of social capital … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. …

Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However … between social capital and the prevalence of entrepreneurship. We also investigate the relationship between social capital and … the living standards of entrepreneurs. In both cases we ask whether these interrelationships differ between migrants and …

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non … provides an opportunity for human and physical capital accumulation but, at the same time, may lead to a loss of social capital … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. …

We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership … cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local … absence of a network. Thus, the formation of the network is inefficient as entrepreneurs incur networking costs for purely …

integration if trading costs are no higher than private migration costs; otherwise the outcome is ambiguous; and iv) the creation …