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Self-Employment Profits : The Case of India

Neog, Bhaskar - 2018

The present paper contributes to the limited literature on the factors affecting firm performance in the developing country context of India. The study uses the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) panel data for the years 2005-06 and 2011-12. The study employs Ordinary Least Squares (OLS)...

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Identity, Perceptions and Institutions : Caste Differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India

Goel, Deepti - 2016

Using data from two rounds of the Employment-Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey for 2004-5 and 2009-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self-worth as measured by the amounts that individuals consider...

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Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023

Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship …

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Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023

Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship …

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Hispanic Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2007

-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … factors in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across groups. We also show that the lower self-employment entry rates …

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2001

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies generally overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self-employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants,...

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Immigrant Self-Employment : Does Intermarriage Matter?

Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2009

This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male … show that immigrants married to a native are significantly less likely to exit from entrepreneurship compared to their … to become an entrepreneur and for survival in entrepreneurship, which is consistent with a network effect. On the one …

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Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S : Do Cohort and within Race Differences Exist?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2010

In this paper we ask three questions: First, is there evidence of a Black-White gap in self-employment between 1994-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this result? Second, do within race differences in self-employment exist among the U.S. born? Finally, do...

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The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Ohlsson, Henrik - 2010

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …

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