This paper looks at the factors that influence an entrepreneur's decision to stay or move out of a neighbourhood. In general, new and relatively small firms tend to have a strong connection to their local environment and hardly ever move across large distances. In the Netherlands, 75% of all...

The Netherlands like most western countries has witnessed a strong rise in small businesses of non-western migrants in recent years. This phenomenon has been particularly observable in disadvantaged multicultural neighbourhoods of the major cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht....