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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430234
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291885
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228573
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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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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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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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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2008
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265025
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The self-employment of immigrants and natives in Sweden: To what extent is it the 'immigrant group' or the 'labour market context' that affects the self-employment of individuals i...
Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - 2010
Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269889
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie F. - 2004
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272295