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options. Utilizing data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of …
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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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This paper analyzes causes of the low self-employment rates among Hispanics, which are nearly half of non-Hispanic … white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The data reveals differences between Mexican-Hispanics …
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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 … earnings of Hispanic female entrepreneurs to both Latina wage/salary workers and to self-employed female non-Hispanic whites …
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-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes …
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This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
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fuller entrepreneurship. We also examine if a digital proto-entrepreneurial experience is sustainable over time by analysing … of necessity, making their journey from proto- to full entrepreneurship less feasible. Our paper provides additional …
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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 …
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When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants …-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants …
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