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Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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African Americans’ Pursuit of Self-Employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; bates, timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ …

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Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …

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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed

Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …

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Entrepreneurship in the United States

Blanchflower, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic Monthly files of the...

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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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

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