Networks and self-employed migrants
Impacte
Scholar |
Altres documents de l'autoria: Martín-Montaner, Joan; Serrano Domingo, Guadalupe; Requena Silvestre, Francisco
Metadades
Mostra el registre complet de l'elementcomunitat-uji-handle:10234/9
comunitat-uji-handle2:10234/8643
comunitat-uji-handle3:10234/8644
comunitat-uji-handle4:
INVESTIGACIONAquest recurs és restringit
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9962-7 |
Metadades
Títol
Networks and self-employed migrantsData de publicació
2017Editor
Springer USISSN
0921-898X; 1573-0913Cita bibliogràfica
Martín-Montaner, Joan, Guadalupe Serrano-Domingo, and Francisco Requena-Silvente. "Networks and self-employed migrants." Small Business Economics. 2017, p. 1-21.Tipus de document
info:eu-repo/semantics/articleVersió de l'editorial
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-017-9962-7Versió
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionParaules clau / Matèries
Resum
This paper examines the immigrant’s decision to become self-employed. Personal characteristics and attitudes are crucial to this decision, but recent literature also highlights the importance of social networks as ... [+]
This paper examines the immigrant’s decision to become self-employed. Personal characteristics and attitudes are crucial to this decision, but recent literature also highlights the importance of social networks as providers of information and financial support. To date, empirical research dealing with the network effect has considered self-employed migrants as a homogeneous group. In contrast, our paper examines the impact of the size and the composition of geographic concentration of co-nationals on the propensity to be self-employed among the foreign-born workers taking into account two possible choices: own-account workers and entrepreneurs. Using micro-level data of migrant workers in Spain over the period 2000–2009, the results show that networks affect positively the probability of becoming self-employed. However, they do not affect the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur, which is determined by individual characteristics such as education and number of years of residence. Thus, our results suggest policies that enable immigrant assimilation can play a significant role in generating entrepreneurial activity. [-]
Publicat a
Small Business Economics, 2017, p. 1-21Proyecto de investigación
This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad [grant numbers ECO2014-58975-P, EC2015-68057- R] and the Universitat Jaume I [grant number P1.1B2013-22Drets d'accés
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2017
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
Apareix a les col.leccions
- IEI_Articles [116]
- ECO_Articles [692]