Immigrants' Propensity to Self-Employment: Evidence from Canada

By Peter S. Li. 2001

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Frank van Tubergen

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Citations in the corpus

• The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike? (2006, unknown): “In North America, immigrants have higher self-employment rates than natives (see Yuengert, 1995, for the US and Li, 2001, for Canada).”
• Why Family Matters: The Impact of Family Resources on Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Exit from Entrepreneurship (2016, unknown): “These limited labor market opportunities are often highlighted as a major reason for the high rates of immigrant entrepreneurship in developed nations (Chaganti et al., 2008; Li, 2001).”
• Immigrant Self-Employment (2009, background): “For example, Borjas (1986), Fairlie and Meyer (1996), Li (2001), and Raijman (2001) did not control for occupational status and found that years of education increased the likelihood of self-employment compared with salaried employment.”