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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model's underlying mechanisms. …
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Earlier research has shown that immigrant- and minority entrepreneurs have difficulties accessing capital through the formal financial markets. This essay studies what role immigrant employees within the local bank sector have for the probability of immigrants to run their own businesses. I use...
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policies on assimilation. In our model, ethnic individuals choose between 1. entrepreneurship, 2. assimilating to the native …
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groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …
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differences. The study found that the non-Tiv group is significantly more inclined to entrepreneurship than the Tiv ethnic group …
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countries is favourable for entrepreneurship and job creation. Building on existing, yet disjointed theories on diversity, the … paper provides insights as to why different types of diversity may have different effects on entrepreneurship. We test our … predictions using multilevel modelling and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey of over 1.5 million people across 88 …
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We document that the lack of diverse employees in the investment sector does not likely result from a shortage of talented diverse candidates graduating from UK universities. We compare occupations in investment management to other occupations that require similar skills and backgrounds (which...
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We analyze first time parents' work patterns. Little empirical work exists on the influence of the partner's (change of) employment status. There is no study known to us that investigates the effects of the family's immigrant background. This study explores both issues in addition to the effects...
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We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by …, entrepreneurship has been an avenue out of poverty, and entrepreneurship has been promoted as a way to decrease welfare and …
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We explore whether financial access explains persistent gender and racial imbalance in entrepreneurship. The 1979 NLSY … for young people to attempt entrepreneurship. We find that the movement away from local finance supported new entry by … African American men into entrepreneurship, but not by women of any race. We show that financial access is an important …
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