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Chapter 17. Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 877-911). 2015
an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship … the most 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025433
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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: Evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586021
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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472862
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Challenges experienced by immigrant entrepreneurs in a developing non-Western country : Malaysia
Hamizah Abd Hamid - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 3, pp. 7-25
provides a layer of knowledge in immigrant entrepreneurship activities conducted in developing non-Western countries, which is … a fertile area of interest in immigrant entrepreneurship. Practice-wise, this study provides useful evidence in … landscape for immigrants to conduct entrepreneurship activities. Contribution & Value Added: This research contributes to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517271
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Religious diversity and entrepreneurship in transition: Lessons for policymakers
Nikolova, Elena; Simroth, Dora - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 5, pp. 1-21
Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, we show that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business. Although religious diversity also correlates with a higher start-up probability (following trial), this effect is driven by access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409611
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: A survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586008
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Segregation, entrepreneurship and work values : the case of France
Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Verdier, Thierry - In: Journal of population economics 24 (2011) 4, pp. 1207-1234
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244168
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Religious diversity and entrepreneurship in transition : lessons for policymakers
Nikolova, Elena; Simroth, Dora - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 5, pp. 1-21
Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, we show that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business. Although religious diversity also correlates with a higher start-up probability (following trial), this effect is driven by access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533298
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372494
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Immigrant entrepreneurship in Romania : drawing best practices from Middle Eastern immigrant entrepreneurs' experiences
Ozmen, Ozgur; Grosu, Raluca Mariana; Dragusin, Mariana - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 56, pp. 260-275
Migrant entrepreneurship represents a topic of a high societal and academic significance. For a host country, immigrant … field research carried out between July 2017 and December 2018, the present paper approaches immigrant entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821310