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Unternehmerische Selbständigkeit von Frauen mit Migrationshintergrund

Spatscheck, Rita - 2010

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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...

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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...

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The urban growth potential of second-generation migrant entrepreneurs : a sectoral study on Amsterdam

Baycan Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha - 2009

particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic …

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The effect of migrants' resource endowments on business performance

Schlepphorst, Susanne; Kay, Rosemarie; Nielen, Sebastian - 2019

This paper questions the stereotypical image of migrant-led companies as being less successful than native-led businesses. While facing similar framework conditions, migrant-led businesses are supposed to differ from native-led businesses in terms of their social capital endowment. In its...

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Immigrants' entrepreneurial opportunities : the case of the Chinese in Portugal

Reis Oliveira, Catarina - 2003

Why do some foreign nationalities seem to have entrepreneurial initiatives and others don't? Why do certain foreign communities tend to build an ethnic economy, and others melt in the economy of the reception country? The analysis made so far of the modes of incorporation of the different...

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Migrant entrepreneurs in East Indonesia : a Schumpeterian perspective

Gorter, Cees - 2000

Entrepreneurship is at the heart of Schumpeterian theory. Potential entrepreneurs donot only take risk by seeking for … importantcomponent of modern entrepreneurship. Spatial (re-)location of firms may also be acombination of economic motives and socio … behaviour of entrepreneurial migrants, governed by multiple economicand socio-cultural motives. This framework is empirically …

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Labor market interactions between legal and illegal immigrants

Epstein, Gil S. - 2000

This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...

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Forced migrants : labour market integration and entrepreneurship

Sak, Güven; Kaymaz, Timur; Kadkoy, Omar; Kenanoglu, Murat - 2017

In 2015, worldwide forced displacement was at its highest recorded level, surpassing 65 million. Out of this number, nearly 20 million people are those who fled their countries of origin to seek refuge in third countries. International responsibility sharing in terms of hosting the historical...

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Occupational choice of return migrants : is there a "Jack-of-all-trades" effect?

Mahé, Clotilde - 2017

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