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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269026
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010
significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011536
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small business borrowers achieved so little success in the United States?
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 25 (2011) 3, pp. 255-266
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307352
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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Hispanic self-employment: a dynamic analysis of business ownership
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2006
-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … factors in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across groups. We also show that the lower self-employment entry rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267635
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Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … factors in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across groups. We also show that the lower self-employment entry rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763550
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763875
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - In: Small Business Economics 33 (2009) 4, pp. 427-439
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491999
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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
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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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/10001399319