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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 …
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industries heavily affected by set-asides and mostly benefited the better educated. -- entrepreneurship ; affirmative action …
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We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …
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Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …
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Introduction: Europe's Innovation Emergency -- Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the European Union - a Reform Agenda …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...
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Within the course of the 20th century the American population went through a metamorphosis from being the tallest in the world, to being among the most overweight. The American height advantage over Western and Northern Europeans was between 3 and 9 cm in the middle of the 19th century....
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When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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