An investigation into the effects of ethnicity and immigration on self-employment

Lunn, John E.; Steen, Todd P.

doi:10.1007/bf02294968

Cited by 9 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…As noted above, both Bates (1995) and Lunn and Steen (2000) found that the impact of education on the probability of self-employment varied across industries. Table 5 shows that there are substantial differences in the average level of education of the Asian ethnic groups.…”

Section: IIImentioning

confidence: 70%

“…Robinson and Sexton (1994) found that the self-employed are more educated than workers in the wage and salary sector, while Bates (1995) reports that the effects of education, as well as some other variables, differ across industries. Lunn and Steen (2000) also found substantial differences across broadly-defined industries. They found that education positively affected the self-employment decision in agriculture, manufacturing of nondurable goods, wholesale trade in nondurable goods, retail trade, personal services, and finance, but negatively affected the self-employment decision in durable goods manufacturing, durable goods wholesale trade, transportation, and business and repair services.…”

Section: Previous Workmentioning

confidence: 94%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The Heterogeneity of Self-Employment: The Example of Asians in the United States

Lunn

Steen

2005

Small Bus Econ

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Self-employment rates differ widely across industries and across racial and ethnic categories. The heterogeneity of self-employment is most pronounced among Asians working in the U.S. The self-employment rate of Koreans is almost eight times greater than the self-employment rate of Laotians. This paper examines the pattern of self-employment across more narrowly defined classifications of Asians and industries to illustrate the heterogeneity of self-employment, and discusses the implications of this heterogeneity. Copyright Springer 2005

show abstract

Section: IIImentioning

confidence: 70%

Section: Previous Workmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Heterogeneity of Self-Employment: The Example of Asians in the United States

Lunn

Steen

2005

Small Bus Econ

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…We believe that this is partly because of inadequate awareness among researchers about the extensive prevalence of immigrant affinity for entrepreneurship and partly due to the lack of an appropriate theoretical framework to study it. Past research on immigrant entrepreneurship has examined why some ethnic groups show higher entrepreneurship rates than others (Lunn and Steen, 2000). Another stream has focused on specific immigrant groups such as Ismaili-Pakistanis (Greene, 1997), Chinese (Wong and Ng, 1998) and Koreans (Yoo, 2000).…”

Section: The Immigrant/ethnic Entrepreneurmentioning

confidence: 99%

Start-Up and Growth of Immigrant Small Businesses: The Impact of Social and Human Capital

Sequeira

Rasheed

2006

J. Dev. Entrepreneurship

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Networks, and their resulting social capital, can be key determinants of successful business start-up for immigrant entrepreneurs. Historically, immigrants have settled in communities characterized by networks that consist of strong ties. Network theory suggests that in addition to strong ties, success also requires the development of weak ties. In this paper, we develop a model of the relationships between strong and weak ties, and the likelihood of a business start-up and its subsequent growth. We also specifically consider the moderating effect of the entrepreneur's human capital in these relationships. Based on this model, we derive a number of theoretical propositions.

show abstract

“…The prevalence of self-employment among both immigrants and natives in the labor market has been researched and documented by many studies in the US Meyer, 2000, 1999;Lunn and Steen, 2000;Bates, 1997;Lofstrom 2002;Chiswick, 1978;Borjas and Bronars 1989;Yuengert 1995), in Canada (Li 2001), and in Europe (Blanchflower and Oswald 1998;Audretsch 2002). In general, self-employment is viewed as a positive choice and as a means to be creative and rewarded in the labor market.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Constant

Shachmurove

2006

International Journal of Manpower

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and ImmigrantsAmelie Constant Yochanan Shachmurove The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent, nonprofit limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. The current research program deals with (1) mobility and flexibility of labor, (2) internationalization of labor markets, (3) welfare state and labor market, (4) labor markets in transition countries, (5) the future of labor, (6) evaluation of labor market policies and projects and (7) general labor economics. D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion.Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available on the IZA website (www.iza.org) or directly from the author. ABSTRACT Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and Immigrants *This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead them to economic success. We employ recent data from the German Socioeconomic Panel that allow us to identify and compare four distinct groups: West Germans, East Germans, guestworkers, and ethnic Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the years-since-migration exhibits a U-shape. During the first years since migration the likelihood of self-employment decreases over time. However, when immigrants have accumulated more years of residence in Germany, the likelihood is increasing again. This suggests that once immigrants have overcome the initial...

show abstract

An investigation into the effects of ethnicity and immigration on self-employment

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

The Heterogeneity of Self-Employment: The Example of Asians in the United States

The Heterogeneity of Self-Employment: The Example of Asians in the United States

Start-Up and Growth of Immigrant Small Businesses: The Impact of Social and Human Capital

Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About