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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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Mexican entrepreneurship : a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2006
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375894
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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self-employed. In the United States, however, rates of self-employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750580
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Why are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Robb, Alicia; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2021
Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family was not strong … racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially behind white … owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners. Black business owners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319060
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2021
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/10013321365
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The Absence of the African-American Owned Business : An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2001
Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as whit men in the United States. The large discrepancies due to a black transition rate into self-employment which is approximately one half the white rate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062955
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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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Cultures of female entrepreneurship
Foreman-Peck, James S.; Zhou, Peng - 2014
propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251057
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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
Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...
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
In many countries, ethnic minority groups are overrepresented in self-employment compared with the majority community. The kind of work done by minority entrepreneurs can therefore be an important driver of the economic well-being of their ethnic group. Furthermore, growing the self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430234