entrepreneurs. In either case culture ceases to be destiny. We relate the theory to historical and recent episodes. …

capital. Other strands of literature stress that the supply of entrepreneurship is a fundamental ingredient of economic growth … opportunity driven entrepreneurship. For what regards institutional variables, three interesting and somehow non conventional … results emerge from the analysis. First, low start-up cost are particular favorable for necessity driven entrepreneurship but …

, and find that religious background has a significant effect on the individual propensity for entrepreneurship, with …

return motivations of a national sample of Australian immigrants. On average, a 10% favorable exchange rate shock (a …

inequality of immigrants’ and natives’ earnings changed over time. We decompose earnings inequality to explore how the changes in … immigrants’ share of the labor force have affected earnings inequality. We find that the increase in overall inequality can be … is due to the expansion of between-group variance caused by the large inflow of low-income immigrants from developing …

from the Current Population Survey, we show that between 1994 and 2008 the national poverty rate of immigrants fell three … times faster than that of natives (5.4 compared to 1.8 percentage points). The poverty rate of recent immigrants (those in … natives and immigrants depend on micro factors such as individual characteristics and macro factors such as business cycle in …

Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay … additional infrastructure investments that immigrants necessitate (no small omission). The conventional wisdom is that funding … business assets that immigrants necessitate. The important distinction is not between public and private sector assets, but …

from the Current Population Survey, we show that between 1994 and 2008 the national poverty rate of immigrants fell three … times faster than that of natives (5.4 compared to 1.8 percentage points). The poverty rate of recent immigrants (those in … natives and immigrants depend on micro factors such as individual characteristics and macro factors such as business cycle in …

the interaction effects of a low uncertainty avoidance culture, predict opportunity exploitation. Our study’s findings are …