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Ethnic minority self-employment : poor paid employment prospects push minority workers into working for themselves, often in low-reward work
Clark, Kenneth - 2015
groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430234
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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265025
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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model's underlying mechanisms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568736
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317065
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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers
Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017
This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641423
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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers
Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017
This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111805
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Ethnic enclaves and immigrant self-employment : a neighborhood analysis of enclave size and quality
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Öner, Özge - 2017
We explore the effects of neighborhood-level ethnic enclaves on the propensity of immigrants to use business ownership as a vehicle to transcend from labor market outsiders to insiders. We exploit an exogenously partitioned grid of geocoded 1-by-1 km squares to approximate neighborhoods, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775558
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Ethnic enclaves, self-employment and the economic performance of refugees
Andersson, Henrik - 2018
In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809935
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
industries heavily affected by set-asides and mostly benefited the better educated. -- entrepreneurship ; affirmative action …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727119
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
industries heavily affected by set-asides and mostly benefited the better educated. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; race …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727736