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Coming to America : does immigrant's home country economic status impact the probability of self-employment in the U.S.?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie James - 2009
; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846995
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Coming to America : Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009
This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159510
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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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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 - 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 Role of Turkish Immigrants in Entrepreneurial Activities in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005
This paper addresses a central issue to migration the role of immigrants in entrepreneurial activity. In particular, the paper focuses on the determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur for Turks living in Germany. The paper provides some important benchmarks, including the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150190
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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336868
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The influence of role models on immigrant self-employment : a spatial analysis for Switzerland
Guerra, Giuliano; Patuelli, Roberto - 2011
entrepreneurship, we develop a simple model that explains immigrant self-employment rates for a sample of 2,490 Swiss municipalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734987
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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages and employment in host countries are quantitatively small but vary widely. We use meta-regression analysis to show how the estimates vary with definitions of the labor market,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326500
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The impact of Syrian refugees on natives' labor market outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a quasi-experimental design
Ceritoglu, Evren; Yunculer, H. Burcu Gurcihan; Torun, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 6 (2017) 5, pp. 1-28
Civil conflict in Syria, started in March 2011, led to a massive wave of forced immigration from Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey, which later had serious economic/political repercussions on the MENA region and most of Europe. This paper exploits this natural experiment to...
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