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Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S : Do Cohort and within Race Differences Exist?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2010

In this paper we ask three questions: First, is there evidence of a Black-White gap in self-employment between 1994-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this result? Second, do within race differences in self-employment exist among the U.S. born? Finally, do...

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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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Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2010

Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...

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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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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

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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Latina Entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

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-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...

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Determinants of Business Success : An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia M. - 2007

Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in...

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Hispanic Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2007

-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … factors in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across groups. We also show that the lower self-employment entry rates …

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

Constant, Amelie - 2021

businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in these challenging jobs. Employing data from the German …, success does not depend on their ethnicity …

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The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Ohlsson, Henrik - 2010

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …

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