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Learning from the Omagongo Cultural Festival about entrepreneurship and self-employment in Namibia

April, Wilfred Isak; Itenge, Daniel Ileni; Namalenga, David - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small … 46 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15

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Migrant Tenure Abroad and the Differential Impact of Remittances for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Cummings, Michael E. - 2020

We use social identity and agency logic to theorize and test hypotheses about how migrants' different abilities and motivations tied to tenure abroad change the impact of their remittances on venture investment back home. Regression and related analyses of remittances to 33 developing countries...

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Small Business Owner Race, Liquidity, and Survival

Farrell, Diana - 2020

The contributions of the small businesses sector to the U.S. economy are often noted in periods of economic growth, and the fragility of the sector is a core focus of policy in an economic downturn. The sector is important not only because of its contributions to job growth, real economic...

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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Huang, Kanyuan (Kevin); Gompers, … - 2021

We study the role of diversity and performance in entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical...

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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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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employment ; entrepreneurship …

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009

-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …

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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

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Dimensions of Religiousness and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Muslim Countries

Klein, Paul-Olivier; Bertrand, Jeremie; Osei-Tutu, Francis - 2023

religiousness and entrepreneurship from the 2017 World Value Survey Middle East Regional Module (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon …). In general, religiousness decreases both entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial spirit. Yet, the impact differs across the … attitudes: strong beliefs and feelings towards religion lead to a more positive attitude towards entrepreneurship – but it does …

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Pulling Effects in Migrant Entrepreneurship : Does Gender Matter?

Colombelli, Alessandra; Grinza, Elena; Meliciani, Valentina - 2020

In this paper, we examine whether the existing stock of migrant firms induces more new firms of the same co-ethnic group in the same sector and province. We do so by analyzing the number of new firms created each year by country of origin, sector, and province, drawing on administrative data of...

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