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“Working the Pages”: Entrepreneurship Strategies of Venezuelan Trans Women Refugees Who Enter Sex Work in Brazil During COVID‐19

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Venezuelan refugee crisis has displaced nearly 8 million people, with transgender and queer refugees among the most marginalized groups. This paper explores the intersecting precarity and entrepreneurship of Venezuelan trans women refugees who became sex workers in Brazil during COVID‐19.
Yvonne Su, Tyler Valiquette, David J. Kinitz, Clara de Oliveira Cunha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the importance of home-country skills of African immigrant entrepreneurs in South Africa

Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review
Objective: The article aims to understand and describe the impact of home-country skills on African immigrant entrepreneurial endeavours in a host country.
Bernard Lama Ngota, Elroy Eugene Smith , Pamella Ayanda Deliwe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Transnational Entrepreneurship: Distinctive Features and a New Definition

Technology Innovation Management Review, 2018
Definitions of transnational entrepreneurship are too general making it difficult to understand what distinguishes transnational entrepreneurship from other forms of entrepreneurship. In addition, these definitions identify the “immigrant”, “ethnic”, or “
Eduardo Bailetti
doaj   +1 more source

(Lifestyle) immigrant entrepreneurs in Spanish small villages: Rethinking international immigration in rural Alt Empordà, Catalonia

Belgeo, 2020
The article studies connections between local economics, entrepreneurship and lifestyle immigration in municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants in Alt Empordà, Spain.
Cristóbal Mendoza, Ricard Morén-Alegret, Ruth McAreavey   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Mind the Cue: Subtle Linguistic Cues Influence Support for Anti‐Refugee Policies

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This work drew on psycholinguistic research on the power of language in shaping emotions and policy preferences, exploring a subtle means of political persuasion. We proposed examining the impact of grammatical form in political communication—how hearing others assert their positions in verb versus noun form impacts the receiver's anger and ...
Orly Idan, Michal Reifen‐Tagar, Boaz Hameiri, Eran Halperin, Einat Amir   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Economic Prosperity in Europe: Insights and Lessons from the Italian Case [PDF]

REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana
This contribution aims at exploring the sectoral and structural characteristics of immigrant entrepreneurship in Italy, highlighting both its dynamism and its intrinsic fragilities within the broader European context.
Antonio Ricci
doaj   +1 more source

Worker Heterogeneity and the Effect of Noncompetes on Firm Performance

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using staggered state‐level changes in noncompete enforceability, we document that reduced enforcement increases profitability, valuation, productivity, and plant‐level growth in knowledge‐worker‐intensive firms relative to other firms. Critically, these gains are concentrated among the most productive knowledge‐worker firms, consistent with ...
Zhaozhao He, Modupe Babajide Wintoki
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic Dynamics and International Trade: Stylized Facts and Theoretical Insights

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Demographic change within a country has economic repercussions for other countries through international transactions. Ongoing shifts in population size and age structure across countries have important implications for international trade, operating through changes in market size, consumption preferences, and labor supply.
Kumuthini Sivathas
wiley   +1 more source