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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 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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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...
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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
-employment ; entrepreneurship …
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009
-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …
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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …
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Gender differences in business performance: Evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses, making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
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Entrepreneurial progress : climbing the entrepreneurial ladder in Europe and the US
Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2010 - Version: March 2010
through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …
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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel (contributor); Thurik, Adriaan R. (contributor) - 2007 - This version: October 2008
covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer …
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