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Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
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Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Robb, Alicia M.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than whiteowned businesses in...
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 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/10011257678
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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/10010735636
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Ethnic minority self-employment
Clark, Ken - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) January, pp. 1-10
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/10011143962
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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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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. - CESifo - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636597
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Immigrants and entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) September, pp. 1-10
successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762301
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Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … factors in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across groups. We also show that the lower self-employment entry rates …
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