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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. …
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Ethnic minority self-employment : poor paid employment prospects push minority workers into working for themselves, often in low-reward work
Clark, Kenneth - 2015
groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …
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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. …
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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 …
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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
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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...
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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...
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African immigrant entrepreneurs in South Africa : exploring their economic contributions
Ngota, Bernard Lama; Rajkaran, Sookdhev; Mang’unyi, … - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 7 (2019) 4, pp. 33-55
and literature on immigrant entrepreneurship while particularly providing insights into African immigrants’ contributions …
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Forced migrants : labour market integration and entrepreneurship
Sak, Güven; Kaymaz, Timur; Kadkoy, Omar; Kenanoglu, Murat - 2018
In 2015, worldwide forced displacement was at its highest recorded level, surpassing 65 million. Out of this number, nearly 20 million people are those who fled their countries of origin to seek refuge in third countries. International responsibility sharing in terms of hosting the historical...
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Contributions of Black entrepreneurs to the US whaling industry, abolition, and other civil rights
Mock, Valerie Ellen - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 40-62
The history of Black entrepreneurs from colonial times through most of the nineteenth century in the US whaling industry provides an excellent opportunity for insights into how free Blacks and those who freed themselves became entrepreneurs and how they influenced the abolition movement and...
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