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Ethnic capital and self-employment : a spatially autoregressive network approach

Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-24

Immigrants experience substantial disadvantages in employment in the host country. "Ethnic capital" (e.g. the ethnic network) is argued to provide a niche for immigrants. Previous international studies adopt either ethnic concentration or language as proxy for immigrants' network in host...

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Ethnic capital and self-employment: a spatially autoregressive network approach

Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-24

<Para ID="Par1">Immigrants experience substantial disadvantages in employment in the host country. “Ethnic capital” (e.g. the ethnic network) is argued to provide a niche for immigrants. Previous international studies adopt either ethnic concentration or language as proxy for immigrants’ network in host...</para>

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Network effects, ethnic capital and immigrants' earnings assimilation : evidence from a spatial, Hausman-Taylor estimation

Maani, Sholeh A.; Wang, Xingang; Rogers, Alan J. - 2015

Do ethnic enclaves assist or hinder immigrants in their economic integration? In this paper we examine the effect of ‘ethnic capital’ (e.g. ethnic network and ethnic concentration) on immigrants' earnings assimilation. We adopt a "spatial autoregressive network approach" to construct a...

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Network Effects, Ethnic Capital and Immigrants' Earnings Assimilation: Evidence from a Spatial, Hausman-Taylor Estimation

Maani, Sholeh A.; Wang, Xingang; Rogers, Alan - 2015

Do ethnic enclaves assist or hinder immigrants in their economic integration? In this paper we examine the effect of 'ethnic capital' (e.g. ethnic network and ethnic concentration) on immigrants' earnings assimilation. We adopt a "spatial autoregressive network approach" to construct a dynamic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345359

Ethnic networks and location choice of immigrants

Maani, Sholeh A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Immigrants can initially face significant difficulties integrating into the economy of the host country, due to information gaps about the local labor market, limited language proficiency, and unfamiliarity with the local culture. Settlement in a region where economic and social networks based...

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Social networks and the labour market mismatch

Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob - 2015

This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a dynamic random effects probit model, we show that social capital exacerbates the incidence of...

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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

Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in …-employed individuals and understand their underlying drive into selfemployment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant entrepreneurs … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …

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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

for differences in socioeconomic background, occupation, regional differences in immigrant population proportions …

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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...

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Asymmetric information in the labor market, immigrants and contract menu

Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - 2011

Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230711

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