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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
This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We … born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities … have an informational advantage over immigrants from developing countries. -- Self-employment ; immigrant ; home country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846995
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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 … born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159510
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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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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/10001399319
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2021
-employed in the sample reduces the immigrant-native earnings gap by, on average, 14 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321365
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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/10010262281
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The influence of role models on immigrant self-employment : a spatial analysis for Switzerland
Guerra, Giuliano; Patuelli, Roberto - 2011
entrepreneurship, we develop a simple model that explains immigrant self-employment rates for a sample of 2,490 Swiss municipalities … and immigrant pool characteristics differ, with respect to self-employment choices, when examining separately urban and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734987
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The cyclicality of immigrant wages and labour market flows : evidence from Spain
Gálvez-Iniesta, Ismael - In: Economics : the open-access, open-assessment journal 16 (2022) 1, pp. 90-122
This article studies the responses of real wages and labour market flows of immigrants in Spain for the period between 1999 and 2019. By using Labour Force Survey microdata, I examine the cyclicality of job-finding and job-separation rates for immigrants and natives over the long Spanish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252566
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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2001
propensity of immigrant groups to be self-employed or if we limit our sample of immigrants to those from only Asian countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118412
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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system
Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023
Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first … 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to … examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants. Higher immigrant firm ownership rates are mainly due to …
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