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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568736
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Immigrant entrepreneurship and the origin of bankers
Eliasson, Tove - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400199
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Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Assimilation
Horvath, Gergely; Zhang, Rui - 2019
policies on assimilation. In our model, ethnic individuals choose between 1. entrepreneurship, 2. assimilating to the native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105181
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The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams : evidence from a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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The gendering of entrepreneurship context
Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida G.; De Bruin, Anne - 2014
context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256276
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Stereotypes about Successful Entrepreneurs
Lyonnet, Victor; Stern, Léa - 2023
What comes to mind when thinking about a successful entrepreneur? Belief formation models suggest that what comes to mind is an oversimplified picture of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, i.e, stereotypes about successful entrepreneurs. Using French administrative data on 48,767...
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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Ethnic diversity and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
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Understanding the Lack of Ethnic and Gender Diversity in the UK Investment Sector
Boutchkova, Maria; Gonzalez, Angelica - 2023
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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First Time Parents' Paid Work Patterns in Amsterdam : Father's Part-Time Work, Family's Immigrant Background and Mother's Work for Pay When the Infant is Very Young
Wetzels, C.M.M.P - 2021
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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