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Coming to America : does immigrant's home country economic status impact the probability of self-employment in the U.S.?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie James - 2009
; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846995
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From rags to riches: how robust is the influence of culture on entrepreneurial activity?
Busch, Christian; Lassmann, Andrea - 2010
activity. -- culture ; entrepreneurship ; migration ; self-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729014
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Coming to America : Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159510
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders : New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Akee, Randall; Jaeger, David A.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325199
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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014
successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420344
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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States
Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021
Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793327
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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313956
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197083
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506325
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What is the value of entrepreneurship?: a review of recent research
van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007
that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group'? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals' utility levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276297