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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

Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...

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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2005 - This version: October 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the “refugee” effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

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Transitioning from solo self-employed to microbusiness employer : local economic environment or owner characteristics?

Henley, Andrew - 2019

Only a minority of micro-businesses create jobs for others. This paper addresses whether personal characteristics and resources of the microbusiness owner or the local external economic environment are drivers of job creation. In the UK context of significant growth in self-employment but a...

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Persistence of entrepreneurship in different historical contexts

Fritsch, Michael; Pylak, Korneliusz; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

level and the sources of persistence from the 1920s until today. Persistence is mainly found in those regions that were part …, ruling out that persistence is driven by transmission of culture. In most regions that were already part of Poland before … entrepreneurship is related to the historical success of regions, which we capture by the pre-war level of and self-employment in …

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The role of hybrid entrepreneurship in explaining multiple job holders' earnings structure

Schulz, Matthias; Urbig, Diemo; Procher, Vivien - 2018

Despite the high prevalence of hybrid entrepreneurs among multiple job holders, research on hybrid entrepreneurship and multiple job holding has largely evolved independently from each other. We take a first step for a fruitful exchange between both research streams by building on hybrid...

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Chapter 17. Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 877-911). 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies, and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...

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Entrepreneurship in the long-run : empirical evidence and historical mechanisms

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2022

We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over time. A particular focus is on the long-term persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship, its explanation, and its meaning for economic development. What is the state of empirical research in this field,...

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Early-stage entrepreneurial activity : an explanatory model for cross-country comparisons

Chepurenko, A.; Gabelko, M.; Obraztsova, O. - 2011

The paper argues that when developing an explanatory model of the early-stage entrepreneurial activity level (measured by total index of early entrepreneurial activity - TEA) one should consider the "path dependency" of the "institutional matrix" of different societies. Otherwise one could...

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