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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014
successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420344
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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238448
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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239493
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How entrepreneurially influential social traits and the concentration of immigrants affect business creation among rural immigrants
Mancilla, Claudio; Vaillant, Yancy; Lafuente, Esteban - 2010
inhabitants. However, results from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for Spain show that this is not consistent across the urban …-rural divide. Explanation for variances in entrepreneurship in rural as compared to urban areas have been linked to specific socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563655
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Immigrant entrepreneurship and the origin of bankers
Eliasson, Tove - 2014
Earlier research has shown that immigrant- and minority entrepreneurs have difficulties accessing capital through the formal financial markets. This essay studies what role immigrant employees within the local bank sector have for the probability of immigrants to run their own businesses. I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400199
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073864
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The Contrasting Effects of Ethnic, Cultural and Immigrant Diversity on Entrepreneurship and Job Creation
Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana - 2020
countries is favourable for entrepreneurship and job creation. Building on existing, yet disjointed theories on diversity, the … paper provides insights as to why different types of diversity may have different effects on entrepreneurship. We test our … predictions using multilevel modelling and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey of over 1.5 million people across 88 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835141
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The Persistence of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Immigrants : Evidence from Stanford University
Lee, Yong Suk - 2017
Ethnic and immigration status may play a role in entrepreneurship and innovation, yet the impact of university … entrepreneurship education on this relationship is under-explored. This paper examines the persistence and differences in … entrepreneurship of Stanford Alumni by ethnicity and nationality. We find that among Stanford alumni, Asian Americans have a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960428
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023916
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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829325