Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs

By Magnus Lofstrom. Social Science Research Network, 2002

242 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Simon C. Parker
2. R. Fairlie
3. Magnus Lofstrom
4. Anne Marie Knott
5. Brian Wu
6. Yu Xie
7. M. Falk
8. Zhen Zeng

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Simon C. Parker
2. R. Fairlie
3. M. Falk
4. T. Leoni
5. Yu Xie
6. Brian Wu
7. Anne Marie Knott
8. Zhen Zeng

Citations in the corpus

• Immigration and Entrepreneurship (2015, background): “Lofstrom (2002) analyzed both self-employment probabilities and earnings, and found that both increase with time spent in the US.”
• Asian‐Americans’ Earnings Disadvantage Reexamined: The Role of Place of Education1 (2004, background): “…trajectory is earnings assimilation—the phenomenon that immigrants’ earnings grow faster than native workers so that the former gradually approach the latter with the increase of length of stay in the United States (Chiswick 1978; Duleep and Regets 1997; LaLonde and Topel 1992; Lofstrom 2002).”
• The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike? (2006, unknown): “This is extended by Lofstrom (2002), who finds substantial differences between migrant workers and self-employed migrants in earnings and educational attainment.”
• Entrepreneurial Risk and Market Entry (2006, background): “These propensities are driven by human capital such as wealth and education (Dunn and Holtz-Eakin 2000, Hamilton 2000), demographic characteristics such as age, marital status, and whether your parents were themselves entrepreneurs (Dunn and Holtz-Eakin 2000), and the quality of alternative options ”
• Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012 (2020, unknown): “1 Examples include (Borjas, 1986; Clark and Drinkwater, 2000; 2006; Fairlie and Meyer, 2003; Fairlie et al., 2010; Kerr and Kerr, 2011; 2017; Lofstrom, 2002; Lofstrom et al., 2014; Schuetze and Antecol, 2007) and Brown et al. (2018).”
• Why are some people more likely to become small-businesses owners than others: Entrepreneurship entry and industry-specific barriers (2014, background): “Other researchers have observed that immigrants are particularly prone to become entrepreneurs (Lofstrom, 2002; Schuetze and Antecol, 2006).”
• Gender and field of study as determinants of self-employment (2010, background): “Lofstrom 2002 ). One of the main factors in the economic theory of SE refers to the capital constraints faced by an individual who wishes to establish a business.”