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Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

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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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia - 2013

-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in … significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of …

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Openness and Technological Innovationsin Developing Countries:Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are importantchannels for the transfer of technology...

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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

Almeida, Rita - 2007

This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...

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Growing Out of the Crisis : Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013

Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...

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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

We study entrepreneurs’ start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informalnetwork, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals itgets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are thenreflected in different loan...

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employedin Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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