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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...
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attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … 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 differences in …
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attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … 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 differences in …
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-employment into self-employment with incorporated businesses (as a proxy for entrepreneurship) and self-employment with unincorporated …
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Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following …) entrepreneurship and economic growth.This paper revisits each of these relationships using US state-level real GDP per capita, the … Economic Freedom of North America index, and the state-level productive and unproductive entrepreneurship scores provided by …
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Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official … (higher) levels of informal economic activity. Additionally, I aim to connect entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and …
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and the effect this persistence has on development. It is argued that a regional culture of entrepreneurship plays an … important role in explaining persistence of entrepreneurship. We discuss possible explanations for the emergence of a culture of … entrepreneurship, and how it becomes self-perpetuating over time. Finally, we draw policy implications and identify some promising …
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This paper analyses persistence and change in the regional league table of entrepreneurship performance in the United … countries on these issues. The paper draws out policy implications on regional levelling-up of entrepreneurship activity. It …
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-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …
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, employment, payroll, profits and industry) from these datasets is contained in Fairlie and Robb (2008). -- Entrepreneurship …
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