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Born Entrepreneurs? : Immigrant Self-Employment in Spain [PDF]

, 2010
Are immigrants more enterprising than natives in Spain? How successful are migrant entrepreneurs compared to those who start businesses in their country of birth? With the growth of migration worldwide, questions such as these are garnering the attention of economists, policymakers and scholars. Born Entrepreneurs?
openaire   +3 more sources

Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic entrepreneurs and online home-based businesses [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives The study considers how online home-based businesses offer opportunities for ethnic entrepreneurs to ‘break out’ of the traditional highly competitive and low margin sectors they are often associated with.
Anwar, Naveed, Daniel, Elizabeth
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The Kauffman Index: Startup Activity National Trends - 2016 [PDF]

, 2015
This report provides a broad index measure of business startup activity in the United States. It is an equally weighted index of three normalized measures of startup activity:The Rate of New Entrepreneurs in the economy, calculated as the percentage of ...
Arnobio Morelix, E. J. Reedy, Joshua Russell, Robert W. Fairlie   +3 more
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Designing an Affordable Health Care Program for Hispanic Immigrants in New York City [PDF]

, 2004
Grameen Research partnered with its sister organization Grameen America, a nonprofit microlender, and Iora Health, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based primary health care provider, to launch a member-financed affordable health care program for low-income ...
Hanna Matras
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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

For the Benefit of All: Strategic Recommendations to Enhance the State's Role in the Integration of Immigrants in Illinois (Joint Executive Summary, Year Two) [PDF]

, 2008
On November 19, 2005, before thousands of immigrants attending the Immigrant Justice Convention hosted by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) in Chicago, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed the landmark New Americans ...
Christine Rhee, Fred Tsao, Joshua Hoyt, Lisa Thakkar, Louise Cainkar, Luis Lara, Nandini Saldanha, Stacia Frens   +7 more
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What do other men think? Understanding (mis)perceptions of peer gender role ideology among young Tanzanian men

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Peer influence in adolescence and early adulthood is critical to the formation of beliefs about appropriate behaviour for each gender. Complicating matters, recent studies suggest that men overestimate peer support for inequitable gender norms. Combined with social conformity, this susceptibility to ‘norm misperception’ may represent a barrier
Alexander M. Ishungisa, Joseph A. Kilgallen, Elisha Mabula, Charlotte O. Brand, Mark Urassa, David W. Lawson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Owns the Rural Space? The Social Contradictions Between Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Native Individuals Under China’s Rural Revitalization

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China’s rural revitalization strategy has led to the emergence of a new group of immigrant entrepreneurs. As they manage industries in villages, social contradictions with the native individuals inevitably arise.
Wei Meng, Hengyu Wang, Shengcong Wang
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Becoming Spatially Embedded: Findings from a Study on Rural Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Norway

Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2017
Objective: The purpose of this article is to offer a nuanced understanding of (immigrant) entrepreneurship as a socio-economic and spatially embedded practice by analysing data from a qualitative study in Finnmark, in northernmost Norway.
Mai Camilla Munkejord
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