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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination
Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011
We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408704
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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination
Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011
We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286270
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Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints under Labour Market Discrimination
Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294843
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011
shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118276
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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
barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs to create small businesses, these programs are designed to alleviate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011536
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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The rise of female entrepreneurs : new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints
Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - 2015
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of liquidity constraints on new business formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510506
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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved so Little Success in the United States?
Bates, Timothy Mason - 2010
barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs to create small businesses, these programs are designed to alleviate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137555
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Financial Constraints of Entrepreneurs and the Self-Employed
Mikhed, Vyacheslav - 2019
incorporation, implying that entrepreneurs face financial constraints, but not business registration, implying that financial …, for serial entrepreneurs, during economic booms, and in neighborhoods without local lenders, are important for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857880
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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
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