Ethnic Enterprise Informality and Entrepreneurship in a Minority-Majority Region in the United States: Latinos in South Texas

Pisani, Michael J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99064-4_10

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“…Thus, we confirm that informality plays an essential role in strengthening the spillover effects that immigration has on entrepreneurship driven by necessity even more in developing regions, where self-employment is an escape route from unemployment. This supports what Pisani (2018), Pisani et al. (2017) and Pisani and Morales (2020) state.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…, 2016), although the effect is higher on the latter than the former. However, Venezuelan immigrants strengthen self-employment (by necessity) as was expected (Pisani, 2018). Own-account workers are also strengthened in the informal sector, but weaker in the official sector.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…In addition, the authors assert informality plays a fundamental role in the effects of immigration on opportunity entrepreneurship, given that business relationships in Spanish are essential, so that small entrepreneurs are not tracked by the US government. Along the same lines, Pisani (2018) claims that since South Texas is a region with high informality, it represents an incentive for immigrants to settle there, which has represented the persistence of entrepreneurship by opportunity. However, this generates, in turn, an effect on self-employment, as there is enough competition with the arrival of new labor.…”

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

“…Informality in developing countries is strongly related to institutional weakness (Chong and Gradstein, 2007), and is triggered by certain rigidities in the labor market in these countries (Canclini, 2019). Consequently, this might strengthen the effect of immigration on entrepreneurial activities (Pisani, 2018;Pisani et al, 2017;Pisani and Morales, 2020). In the case of Colombia, for example, Garc ıa (2017) and J€ utting and De Laiglesia (2009) have found firms hire workers without a formal contract, which is harmful for the labor market and economy at large due to unfair salaries and tax avoidance.…”

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PurposeMotivated by a lack of evidence regarding the effect of migration on entrepreneurship in a highly informal country, such as Colombia, this paper has a twofold purpose. First, it explores how Venezuelan immigration affects entrepreneurial activity in Colombian regions. Second, it intends to shed light on this relationship, by distinguishing between formal and informal sectors.Design/methodology/approachWith a sample of 1,776,063 individuals, from the Labor Survey Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares (GEIH) from the Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), the authors employ an instrumental variable approach to account for the selection of immigrants into locations with more or less desirable conditions.FindingsThe results suggest Venezuelan immigration positively influences self-employment and own-account workers, but negatively affects employers. However, once these immigrants proliferate in the informal sector, the effects increase.Originality/valueThis paper brings new insights into the intersection between immigration, unofficial economies, and entrepreneurship. First, while the prior literature focuses on migration from developing to developed countries, migratory flows between developing economies and its effects on local entrepreneurial activity remain unexplored. Second, although informality is mostly common in developing countries, little (albeit growing) evidence of its role in the relationship between migration and entrepreneurship research exists. Finally, the authors bring together these two phenomena to enhance our understanding of different types of entrepreneurial activities when immigration and informality take place. Policy implications are derived from these insights.

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Thematic Review of Motivational Factors, Types of Uncertainty, and Entrepreneurship Strategies of Transitional Entrepreneurship among Ethnic Minorities, Immigrants, and Women Entrepreneurs

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The current study examines the motivational factors, types of uncertainty, and entrepreneurship strategies of transitional entrepreneurship among ethnic minorities, immigrants, and women entrepreneurs, drawing insights from an extensive literature review. To understand the dynamics of transitional entrepreneurship, a thematic review, a qualitative research tool, was used to analyze the research problem and provide answers to the research questions. Three insightful findings emerged from the thematic review. First, six broad themes emerged as catalysts for transitional entrepreneurship among the three focused entrepreneurs, namely, the institutional environment, push factors, pull factors, ethnic resource dependence, cultural inheritance, and gender identity issues. Specific elements of each of the six themes are explicated. Moreover, two levels of uncertainty (Levels 1 and 2) confront transitional entrepreneurs depending on countries and institutional contexts. Level 1 uncertainty presents a clear future with likelihoods, possibilities, and probabilities of success, while Level 2 uncertainty presents several alternate paths and trajectories with a blurred possibility of success for these entrepreneurs. Finally, transitional entrepreneurs leverage optioned and adaptive entrepreneurship strategies in different ways to cope with the two types of uncertainty in their host countries. Given the prospects of TE, the paper provides implications on how to remove the institutional barriers facing transitional entrepreneurs for more balanced socioeconomic inclusion in host countries. It further explicates a need to leverage the motivational factors and entrepreneurship strategies for economic development. By providing a theoretical-based framework of motivations, types of uncertainty, and entrepreneurship strategies, the paper bridges the gaps in the literature and contributes to a better way of understanding TE among ethnic minorities, immigrants, and women entrepreneurs in the period of transition.

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Ethnic Enterprise Informality and Entrepreneurship in a Minority-Majority Region in the United States: Latinos in South Texas

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From immigrants to local entrepreneurs: understanding the effects of migration on entrepreneurship in a highly informal country

From immigrants to local entrepreneurs: understanding the effects of migration on entrepreneurship in a highly informal country

Thematic Review of Motivational Factors, Types of Uncertainty, and Entrepreneurship Strategies of Transitional Entrepreneurship among Ethnic Minorities, Immigrants, and Women Entrepreneurs

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