2009
DOI: 10.1177/0730888409340128
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Immigrant Self-Employment

Abstract: Using large-scale data on immigrants in the Netherlands, the authors tested competing arguments about the role of origin- and host-country human capital and bonding and bridging social capital in immigrants' self-employment. When taking job-skill level into account, immigrants with a higher level of origin- and destination-country education are less likely to be self-employed than salary employed. Likewise, the likelihood of self-employment decreases with origin-country work experience but not with host-countr… Show more

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“…Consistent with the notion of social capital, several studies have described strong ties with families and friends as a source of strength for rural Latino families (e.g., Ornelas et al, 2009;Parra-Cardona et al, 2006). Other work has demonstrated the importance of human capital: skills and knowledge that allow individuals to be productive within a particular context, which in the case of immigrants includes educational level, familiarity with the U.S. context, and English language fluency (e.g., Kanas, van Tubergen, & van der Lippe, 2009). Finally, a connection between immigrant adjustment and accumulation of economic capital (e.g., income, savings, or convertible assets) has been established (see Valdivia et al, 2008).…”
Section: Conceptual Framework and Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…Consistent with the notion of social capital, several studies have described strong ties with families and friends as a source of strength for rural Latino families (e.g., Ornelas et al, 2009;Parra-Cardona et al, 2006). Other work has demonstrated the importance of human capital: skills and knowledge that allow individuals to be productive within a particular context, which in the case of immigrants includes educational level, familiarity with the U.S. context, and English language fluency (e.g., Kanas, van Tubergen, & van der Lippe, 2009). Finally, a connection between immigrant adjustment and accumulation of economic capital (e.g., income, savings, or convertible assets) has been established (see Valdivia et al, 2008).…”
Section: Conceptual Framework and Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…The authors inquired the contacts that migrants have with (native-born) Dutch people Kanas et al (2009). In addition, they measured membership of organizations and the percentage of non-Western immigrants in social organizations reflecting the observation that among immigrants, even those from higher socioeconomic backgrounds can lack bridging social capital due to lacking connections with local people and ending up being removed from the mainstream of the society.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mazzolari (2009) from their social interactions with natives. In particular, Kanas, van Tubergen, and van der Lippe (2009) find that immigrants' contacts with Germans led to better occupational status. Drever and Hoffmeister (2008) show that nearly half of the immigrant-origin job changers in Germany got their jobs through social contacts.…”
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confidence: 87%