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Hispanic self-employment: a dynamic analysis of business ownership
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2006
This paper analyzes causes of the low self-employment rates among Hispanics, which are nearly half of non-Hispanic … white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … relatively small but shown to be meaningful in explaining the white-Hispanic self-employment rate gap. The data show large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267635
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Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
likely to be selfemployed as well as entering self-employment, relative to non-Hispanic whites. Importantly, we analyze self … financial capital "intensiveness", or entry barriers, is effective in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247699
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2009
earnings of Hispanic female entrepreneurs to both Latina wage/salary workers and to self-employed female non-Hispanic whites …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269026
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
earnings of Hispanic female entrepreneurs to both Latina wage/salary workers and to self-employed female non-Hispanic whites …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763875
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313956
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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed
Constant, Amelie F. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265025
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Mexican entrepreneurship: a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2006
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267337
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie F. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272295
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326