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A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …
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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...
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-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …
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fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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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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-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 … register data on individuals for the year of 2007 for the entire Swedish population we have in this study a unique opportunity …
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environment. Using U.S. census data for the year 2000, we find significant differences in the propensity to become self …
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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. …
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