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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on self-employed workers in Canada

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...

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By Choice and by Necessity : Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in the Developing World

Margolis, David N. - 2014

Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of self-employment in the overall...

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Canadian small businesses' employees and owners during COVID-19

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

, such as female and immigrant small business owners, having considerably worse outcomes than their respective counterparts. …

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Youth Unemployment and Entrepreneurship (НЕЗАПОСЛЕНОСТ МЛАДИХ И ПРЕДУЗЕТНИШТВО)

Juznik Rotar, Laura - 2015

English Abstract: The paper deals with the problem of youth unemployment and entrepreneurship as a way out of … jobs tend to be less stable, because there are significant skills mismatches on the labor market. Entrepreneurship is a …

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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …

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Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind

Giulietti, Corrado - 2013

While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated … impact of migration on entrepreneurship among individuals with no migration experience. We explore the self …

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Beyond the local market : Mexican cross-border entrepreneurs in the United States

Orraca, Pedro; Ramirez-Urquidy, Martin; Ramirez, Natanael - In: Journal of developmental entrepreneurship : JDE ; a … 22 (2017) 4, pp. 1-23

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Well-being effects of self-employment : a spatial inquiry

Abreu, Maria; Öner, Özge; Brouwer, Aleid; Leeuwen, … - 2018

Our paper presents an empirical analysis of entrepreneurial well-being using a large-scale longitudinal household survey from the UK that tracks almost 50,000 individuals across seven waves over the period 2009-2017, as well as a number of exploratory case studies. We contribute to the existing...

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Gendered motives towards hybrid entrepreneurial intentions : empirical evidence from China

Liu, Zhiyang; Wu, Guixing - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 1, pp. 36-64

Hybrid entrepreneurship research is to probe into the increasingly widespread phenomenon of "employment … + entrepreneurship" in real life, and to break the traditional practice of dichotomizing self-employment and employment. Hybrid … entrepreneurship provides entrepreneurs with another employment alternative by combining entrepreneurship and employment. By analyzing …

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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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