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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States [PDF]

Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being
David A. Jaeger, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Randall Kekoa Quinones Akee   +2 more
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The distinctive incorporation of sociological neoinstitutionalism into Japanese sociology and its theoretical insights for the discipline

Japanese Journal of Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 206-223, March 2025.
Abstract Although sociological neoinstitutionalist thought has made indelible imprints across the social sciences in Japan, its incorporation into Japanese sociology at large has been relatively limited, and its broader applications to analyses of global social phenomena using World Society Theory are even less prominent.
Ralph I. Hosoki
wiley   +1 more source

Give Me Your Entrepreneurs, Your Innovators: Estimating the Employment Impact of a Startup Visa [PDF]

, 2013
The idea of visas for immigrant entrepreneurs has bounced around the country for many years, and even has been introduced into Congress on more than one occasion.
Dane Stangler, Jared Konczal
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Quality of Employment of High School Graduates: Focusing on the Effect of Student Vocational Education and Training Experience

International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to identify latent employment quality patterns among vocational high school graduates and examine how these patterns are influenced by their upper‐secondary vocational education and training (VET) experiences. Grounded in the International Labour Organisation's concept of decent work, this study considers employment quality ...
Seong Ji Jeong
wiley   +1 more source

Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello, Lars Mathiassen, Marten Risius, Marc Cheong, Helana Scheepers, Emmanuelle Vaast   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A narrative analysis of barriers encountered by a sample of immigrant entrepreneurs in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2019
A growing movement of foreign nationals is settling and starting up businesses in South Africa. Given this fact, there is a need to understand those factors influencing the human capital side of being an immigrant entrepreneur as a basis for coming up ...
Justice Muchineripi, Willie Chinyamurindi, Tendai Chimucheka   +2 more
doaj   +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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Partisanship, Ethnicity and Tax Policy Perceptions: Investigating Public Responses to Ghana's E‐Levy

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of public opinion on Ghana's electronic transaction levy (E‐Levy), focusing on party politics and ethnic identity roles. The E‐Levy, introduced in 2022, imposed a 1.75% tax on electronic transactions, sparking a nationwide debate. A review of E‐Levy implementation across Africa revealed mixed outcomes, with
Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh
wiley   +1 more source

“Hitting two targets with one shot” in the context of Immigrant entrepreneurship: Case studies in Germany related with entrepreneurial migrant activities for the development of the home and host countries

Studia i Materiały, 2018
This paper aims to contribute to the debate and knowledge of immigrant entrepreneurship in Germany by analyzing a central research question (derived mainly from Dana (2007), Tung (2008), de Haas (2010), Riddle et al. (2010; 2011) Jones et al. (2011), Elo
Ben Collins Vershiyi Kwaven, Claudia Nelly Berrones-Flemmig, Utz Dornberger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

No. 68: Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique [PDF]

, 2015
While increasing attention is being paid to the drivers and forms of entrepreneurship in informal economies, much less of this policy and research focus is directed at understanding the links between mobility and informality.
Chikanda, Abel, Crush, Jonathan, Skinner, Caroline   +2 more
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