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Different strokes for different folks : entrepreneurs' job satisfaction and the intersection of gender and migration background

Bijedić, Teita; Piper, Alan T. - 2018

economy and its entrepreneurial ecosystems. Relatedly, migrant entrepreneurship is a highly recognized topic within political … discussions as well as within entrepreneurship research. While there is already an impressive body of work regarding the nature …

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Forced migrants : labour market integration and entrepreneurship

Sak, Güven; Kaymaz, Timur; Kadkoy, Omar; Kenanoglu, Murat - 2018

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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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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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-20

G23; G24; J15; J61; L5; L26; M12; M13; O31; O32; R11 </AbstractSection> Copyright Nathan; licensee Springer. 2014

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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014

Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...

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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David; Regets, Mark C. - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2013

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …

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Cultures of Female Entrepreneurship

foreman-peck, james s.; Zhou, Peng - Economics Section, Cardiff Business School - 2014

The present research shows how entrepreneurial culture contributes to the widely noted difference in entrepreneurial propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate testable hypotheses about the gender effects of...

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...

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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in … significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of …

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...

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