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Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.? [PDF]

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This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self ...
Belton, Willie, Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth
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Ethnic Concentration, Cultural Identity and Immigrant Self-Employment in Switzerland [PDF]

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Immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across regions in Switzerland. Business ownership seems to provide an alternative to wage labour, where immigrants have to face structural barriers such as the limited knowledge of the local language, or ...
Giuliano Guerra   +2 more
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Who do High-growth Firms Employ, and Who do they Hire? [PDF]

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The purpose of this paper is to study who high- growth firms (HGFs) hire using a matched employer-employee dataset for all knowledge intensive industries in Sweden, where high growth is measured over the period 1999-2002.
Coad, Alex   +3 more
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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation [PDF]

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We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of ...
William R. Kerr
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High-skilled immigration enhances regional entrepreneurship. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Tareque IS, Guzman J, Wang D.
europepmc   +1 more source

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