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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
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The Transformation of Self Employment
Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
self-employment to 23%. This same time period also witnessed declines in "hometown" local entrepreneurship and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938694
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A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model
Levie, Jonathan; Autio, Erkko - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 31 (2008) 3, pp. 235-263
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Operationalizing opportunities in entrepreneurship research : use of data envelopment analysis
Anokhin, Sergey; Wincent, Joakim; Autio, Erkko - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 37 (2011) 1, pp. 39-57
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Global entrepreneurship and institutions : an introduction
Levie, Jonathan; Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltán J.; Hart, Mark - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 42 (2014) 3, pp. 437-444
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Entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth : evidence from GEM data
Wong, Poh-Kam; Ho, Yuen Ping; Autio, Erkko - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 24 (2005) 3, pp. 335-350
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2009
. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463273
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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship : How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
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