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

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 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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Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

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Ethnic minority self-employment

Clark, Ken - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …

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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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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: A survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

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Religious diversity and entrepreneurship in transition: Lessons for policymakers

Nikolova, Elena; Simroth, Dora - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 5, pp. 1-21

Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, we show that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business. Although religious diversity also correlates with a higher start-up probability (following trial), this effect is driven by access to...

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Immigrant entrepreneurship in Romania: Drawing best practices from Middle Eastern immigrant entrepreneurs' experiences

Ozmen, Ozgur; Grosu, Raluca Mariana; Dragusin, Mariana - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 23 (2021) 56, pp. 260-275

Migrant entrepreneurship represents a topic of a high societal and academic significance. For a host country, immigrant … field research carried out between July 2017 and December 2018, the present paper approaches immigrant entrepreneurship in …

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less? : conference paper

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

We compare, based on German data, the income of self-employed individuals with and without employees with the income of dependently employed individuals. Our results show that self-employed with employees tend to earn significantly higher incomes than their salaried counterparts, while with the...

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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Corporate income taxes and entrepreneurship

Block, Jörn - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Corporate income taxation influences the quantity and type of entrepreneurship, which in turn affects economic … development. Empirical evidence shows that higher corporate income tax rates reduce business density and entrepreneurship entry … rates and increase the capital size of new firms. The progressivity of tax rates increases entrepreneurship entry rates …

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