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The Comparison of Incomes of Self-Employed and Salaried Workers Among German Nationals and Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F. - 2006

This paper attempts to compare the economic success of immigrants and natives in Germany. Employing data from German Socioeconomic Panel, the paper investigates the factors affecting self-employment as well as compares the income of self-employed and employed workers among four groups - West...

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Which Immigrants are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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The Employees of Native and Immigrant Self-Employed

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjo, Eskil - 2021

employing natives, while the probability that natives employ immigrants increases with the immigrant share in the municipality …

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Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjo, Eskil - 2021

When studying income differences and income distribution, the self-employed are often excluded from the population studied. There are several good reasons for this, for example that incomes from self-employment are not reported to the same extent as incomes from being an employee. On the other...

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Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden : A Way to Economic Self-Reliance?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjo, Eskil - 2021

Immigrants have a weak position in the labour market in most European countries. Many have difficulties in establishing themselves in the labour market, the employment rate is low and the hourly wages are generally lower than what could be expected from characteristics (age, gender, education)....

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Ethnic Concentration, Cultural Identity and Immigrant Self-Employment in Switzerland

Guerra, Giuliano; Patuelli, Roberto; Maggi, Rico - 2012

Immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across regions in Switzerland. Business ownership provides an … that may facilitate the transition from the status of immigrant to the one of economic agent. Among others factors …

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Intrametropolitan Opportunity Structure and the Self-Employment of Asian and Latino Immigrants

Liu, Cathy Yang - 2012

of immigrants in a local area both give rise to immigrant entrepreneurship. Results suggest that traditional theories … hypothesis is still validated. Potential policies to promote immigrant entrepreneurship are also discussed … like disadvantage theory needs to be reassessed in the context of new immigrant gateways, while the ethnic enclave …

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023

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The Influence of Role Models on Immigrant Self-Employment : A Spatial Analysis for Switzerland

Guerra, Giuliano; Patuelli, Roberto - 2014

entrepreneurship, we develop a simple model that explains immigrant self-employment rates for a sample of 2,490 Swiss municipalities … and immigrant pool characteristics differ, with respect to self-employment choices, when examining separately urban and …

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