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Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and Their Descendants

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self …-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to … survival probability in entrepreneurship for Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants, which does not carry on to their U …

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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity : It Pays to Be Self-Employed

Constant, Amelie F. - 2021

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Kahanec, Martin; Mendola, Mariapia - 2021

The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependence on social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issues with significant policy consequences. We use detailed micro-data on multiple-origin ethnic minorities in England and...

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Customer Discrimination and Ethnic Team Composition

Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik; Wolters, Leonie - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study uses a difference-in-differences approach to show that...

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Roma and Bureaucrats : A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination

Mikula, Štepán; Montag, Josef - 2023

This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined...

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Economic and Cultural Gaps Among Foreign-Born Minorities in Spain

de la Rica, Sara - 2009

This paper compares the economic and cultural gaps of the largest foreign-born ethnic minorities in Spain: Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education gap, early marriage, inter-ethnic marriage, fertility,...

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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity - country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...

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Visible Minorities and Job Mobility : Evidence from a Workplace Panel Survey

Javdani, Mohsen - 2019

In this study we use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether visible minority Canadian-borns experience any differences in their inter-firm and intra-firm job mobility, as well as wage returns associated with them, compared to white Canadian-borns. We also examine the extent to...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workers' Countries of Birth on Over-Education

Jacobs, Valentine - 2019

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and over-education, taking advantage of access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Covering more than 1.2 million workers, the data enable the authors to: i) measure...

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