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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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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 …
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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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-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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differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ …
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We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
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More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...
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Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …
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-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
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