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Coming to America : does immigrant's home country economic status impact the probability of self-employment in the U.S.?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie James - 2009
; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846995
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Self-employed immigrants and their employees : evidence from Swedish employer-employee data
Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2018
We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points for their time immigration to Sweden. High...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911143
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Self-employment in China : are rural migrant workers and urban residents alike?
Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013
This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and paid-employment obtained through a three-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700209
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From rags to riches: how robust is the influence of culture on entrepreneurial activity?
Busch, Christian; Lassmann, Andrea - 2010
activity. -- culture ; entrepreneurship ; migration ; self-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729014
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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014
significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249399
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By choice and by necessity : entrepreneurship and self-employment in the developing world
Margolis, David N. - 2014
Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of self-employment in the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370089
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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States
Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793327
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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439390
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506325
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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313956