Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin

doi:10.3368/jhr.58.3.0719-10306r2

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“…The latter is calculated as the share of child arrivals to the United States who subsequently have married another person from their country of birth.1 5 Immigrant entrepreneurs further display a remarkable concentration by ethnic group in terms of sectors, such as Vietnamese nail care salons, Korean dry cleaners, Gujarati Indian motels, and Punjabi Indian convenience stores. For example,Kalnins and Chung (2006),Roth et al (2012),Patel and Vella (2013),Andersson et al (2014),Battisti et al (2016), andKerr and Mandor¤ (2021).1 6 We have also con…rmed throughout this project that food services are not overly in ‡uencing our results given the ethnic-based nature of many immigrant-owned restaurants.…”

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Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

Kerr¹,

Kerr²

2021

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The research program of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) produces a wide range of economic analyses to improve the statistical programs of the U.S. Census Bureau. Many of these analyses take the form of CES research papers. The papers have not undergone the review accorded Census Bureau publications and no endorsement should be inferred. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. Republication in whole or part must be cleared with the authors.To obtain information about the series, see www.census.gov/ces or contact

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Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

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Kerr²

2021

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“…In many international immigrant cities, some industries are highly monopolized by particular ethnic groups. This is because the knowledge diffusion of specific industries depends on the social network of ethnic groups (Kerr & Mandorff, 2016). In the relationship (or guanxi)‐based Chinese society, the integration of economic and social systems has always been the basic paradigm.…”

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Cultural barriers, institutional distance, and spatial spillovers: Evidence from regional industrial evolution in China

Qiliang

Xian-zhuang

2021

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This study empirically explores the formation of interregional cultural barriers that affect spatial spillovers within the framework of institutional distance based on evidence of regional industrial evolution in China. With dialect as the proxy of culture, this study finds that, first, regional cultural differences will hinder the spatial spillovers of industrial evolution, but the formation of cultural barriers is not only related to culture itself but also closely related to the formal institutional distance between regions. Second, when there is inter‐regional formal institutional distance, formal institutions are insufficient to shape the economic order, and cultural factors with the attributes of informal institutions will become an alternative arrangement to regulate inter‐regional interaction through trust and information mechanisms. The construction of mutual trust based on cultural affinity can reduce the uncertainty of inter‐regional interactions. However, this trust mechanism is regulated by formal institutions and will be significantly weakened with the reduction in formal institutional distance. In addition, information diffusion is easier in regions of cultural homogeneity. However, this information mechanism is often confined to a small social network, and it tends to be weaker as economic society becomes increasingly open and complex.

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“…The shares are 55 and 63%, respectively for European and non-European immigrants, which should be compared to the share among natives, which is 68%. 36 Kerr and Mandorff (2015) have shown that non-work relationships facilitate the acquisition of sector-specific skills and represent one important factor contributing to immigrant-native patterns in entrepreneurship. Mean coefficients; *, ** and *** denote the significance on the 10, 5 and 1 percent level respectively.…”

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Immigrant-native differences in long-term self-employment

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We study immigrant-native differences in long-term self-employment in Sweden combining population-wide register data and a unique survey targeting a large representative sample of the total population of long-term self-employment. Using the registers, we analyze the evolution of labor and capital incomes during the first 10 years following self-employment entry. We find that immigrant-native differences in labor income become smaller, whereas immigrant-native differences in capital income grow stronger, over the course of self-employment. These findings are robust to controlling for factors such as organizational form and type of industry. We use the survey data to gain further insights into immigrant-native differences among the long-term self-employed, and show that immigrant self-employed experience more problems and earn less, but work harder than native self-employed. They also have a less personal relation to their customers, do not enjoy their work as much as natives, and appear to have different perspectives on self-employment in general.

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Cited by 42 publications

References 73 publications

Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

Cultural barriers, institutional distance, and spatial spillovers: Evidence from regional industrial evolution in China

Immigrant-native differences in long-term self-employment

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