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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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options. Utilizing data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of …
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survival probability in entrepreneurship for Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants, which does not carry on to their U …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 …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self … of data often is insufficient and difficult to access due to language barriers. We present an analysis of Swedish self …
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-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …
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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...
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Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an …
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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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Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …
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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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