Konferenzbeitrag
The role of Culture on Self-Employment
There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment by exploiting variation in historical self-employment rates by country of origin of second-generation immigrants. Since second-generation immigrants are born in the U.S., all of them live under American laws and institutions. Thus, we interpret differences in self-employment rates by country of origin as evidence of the effect of culture. Using this epidemiological approach, we find that culture has quantitatively significant effects the self-employment decision.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: 53rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy", 27-31 August 2013, Palermo, Italy
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor Demand
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Demographic Economics: General
- Subject
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Self-Employment
Culture
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Marcen, Miriam
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Veröffentlichung
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European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
- (where)
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Louvain-la-Neuve
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2013
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Konferenzbeitrag
Associated
- Marcen, Miriam
- European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
Time of origin
- 2013
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