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

Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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...

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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, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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...

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Self-Employment Dynamics across the Business Cycle: Migrants versus Natives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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The comparison of incomes of self-employed and salaried workers among German Nationals and immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005

This paper attempts to compare the economic success of immigrants and natives in Germany. Employing data from German Socioeconomic Panel, the paper investigates the factors affecting self-employment as well as compares the income of self-employed and employed workers among four groups – West...

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...

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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …

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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. …

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The persistence of self-employment across borders : new evidence on legal immigrants to the United States

Akee, Randall (contributor); Jaeger, David A. (contributor); … - 2007

-employment has a significant effect on U.S. wages in either paid employment or self employment. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

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Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Germany

Audretsch, David B. - 2017

, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …

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