Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship

Migrants may participate in local and global economies by creating employment opportunities, either for themselves or for others. Sometimes entrepreneurship is a solution for unemployment or underemployment. It may also operate within ethnic or linguistic niches, but is certainly not limited to these functions.

This topic includes studies that refer to (the development of) migrant businesses, entrepreneurial motivations, professional trajectories of migrants, ethnic/migrant niches, and the unemployment or underemployment of migrants.

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Bridging the Gap Transnationally—Coupling Migrants' Informal and Formal Business Activities Through Hybrid Business Models

Authors Alexandra David, Judith Terstriep, Maria Elo
Year 2024
Journal Name Thunderbird International Business Review
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1 Journal Article

Do Networks Do the Works? Towards Recognising (and Solving) a Migration-Entrepreneurship Conundrum

Year 2013
Journal Name Central and Eastern European Migration Review
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2 Journal Article

A Review of Transnational Migrant Entrepreneurship: Perspectives on Unequal Spatialities

Authors Laure Sandoz, Christina Mittmasser, Yvonne Riaño, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography
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3 Journal Article

The Transferability and Mobilisability of Transnational Social Resources

Authors Östen Wahlbeck
Year 2018
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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4 Journal Article

Measures to Support Early-Stage Migrant Entrepreneurs

Authors Giacomo Solano, Alexander Wolffhardt, Aldo Xhani
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Year 2019
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5 Report

Immigrant Businesses

Authors Jan Rath
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6 Book

Migration and Migrant Entrepreneurship in a German-Polish border region

Authors Anna Skraba, Magdalena Nowicka
Year 2018
Journal Name Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny
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7 Journal Article

From Workers to Entrepreneurs: Central Asian Migrants in the Russian Business Market

Authors Ekaterina Vorobeva, Ekaterina Vorobeva
Year 2023
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8 Journal Article

Study and work paving the way for Moroccan migrants: the entrepreneurial path to transnational and domestic business activities

Authors Juan Francisco Alvarado Valenzuela, Giacomo Solano
Year 2022
Journal Name ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography
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9 Journal Article

From Family Embeddedness to Families Embedding in Migrants' Opportunity Development Processes

Authors Quang Evansluong, Marcela Ramirez Pasillas
Year 2021
Journal Name Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings
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10 Journal Article

Brazilian-Canadian Immigrant Businesses Configuration in the Greater Toronto Metropolitan Area, Canada

Authors Michel Mott Machado, Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Roberto Pessoa de Queiroz Falcão, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Frontera Norte
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11 Journal Article

Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Year 2015
Book Title Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
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14 Book Chapter

Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions

Authors Wim Naudé, Melissa Siegel, Katrin Marchand
Year 2017
Journal Name IZA Journal of Migration
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16 Journal Article

Ethnic and Immigrant Businesses Taxonomy and Its Impacts Towards Entrepreneurial Education

Authors Eduardo Picanço Cruz, Roberto Pessoa de Queiroz Falcão
Year 2020
Book Title Multidisciplinary Approach to Entrepreneurship Education for Migrants
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17 Book Chapter

Beyond "Little Taipei": The Development of Taiwanese Immigrant Businesses in Los Angeles

Authors Yen-Fen Tseng
Year 1995
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 42
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18 Journal Article

The Use of New Technologies by Migrant Entrepreneurs in Two European Cities

Authors Alberta Andreotti, Giacomo Solano
Year 2019
Book Title Diaspora Networks in International Business
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19 Book Chapter

). Immigrant entrepreneurship in Turkey: history, development and current market

Authors Muhammad Moiz, Banberk Turkec
Year 2022
Journal Name Pressacademia
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20 Journal Article

Self-Confidence of Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneurs in Colombia

Authors Neida Albornoz-Arias, Akever-Karina Santafe-Rojas
Year 2022
Citations (WoS) 3
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21 Journal Article

A Game of Ethnic Musical Chairs? Immigrant Businesses and Niches in the Amsterdam Economy

Authors Jan Rath
Book Title Minorities in European Cities
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22 Book Chapter

Mobilization and disengagement: Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in urban France

Authors Winnie Lem
Year 2010
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 7
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24 Journal Article

Segregated jobs or ethnic niches?

Authors Moshe Semyonov, Cedric Herring
Year 2007
Journal Name Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
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25 Journal Article

Immigrant business proprietors in England and Wales (1851-1911)

Authors Harry Smith, Robert J. Bennett, Carry van Lieshout
Year 2019
Journal Name CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
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26 Journal Article

Exploring the Role of Privilege in Migrant Women’s Self-Employment

Authors Natasha A. Webster, Karen Haandrikman
Year 2022
Journal Name Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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27 Journal Article

Asian immigrant entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs: A comparative study of recent Korean and Filipino immigrants

Authors James T. Fawcett, Robert W. Gardner
Year 1994
Journal Name Population and Environment
Citations (WoS) 17
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28 Journal Article

Migrant labor in hospitality: The Cyprus experience

Authors Anastasios Zopiatis, Panayiotis Constanti, Antonis L. Theocharous
Year 2014
Journal Name International Journal of Hospitality Management
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29 Journal Article

Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

Authors Quang Evansluong, Lena Grip, Eva Karayianni
Year 2023
Journal Name International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
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30 Journal Article

Design study on a scheme to attract non-EU resident highly skilled entrepreneurial innovators

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Objective: The objective of the study is to design an EU-wide scheme to attract high-skilled non-EU resident entrepreneurial innovators, and to facilitate the creation and development of high-potential companies in Europe. The study fits to the EC’s objective to boost innovation, growth and investments by unleashing the EU’s full capacities and competitiveness, while addressing the consequences of demographic ageing and offsetting skills shortages in the continent. Summary: The study will recommend a scheme to attract 20,000 migrant entrepreneurs per year to the EU through the creation of an electronic platform of services to potential migrant entrepreneurs, possible financial support and a promotion campaign. The direct objectives of the schemes are to facilitate access to the EU for non-EU nationals (visa scheme), create incentives (including linking to financial support), facilitate access to EU ecosystems, incubator schemes and private funding (via the platform) as well as to inform aspiring entrepreneurs. The study will include amongst other an assessment of existing (public and semi-public) initiatives in following EU Member States: Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, and Spain. Moreover, it will benchmark these against schemes in a number of non-EU countries with successful entrepreneurial support initiatives.
Year 2016
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31 Project

The Chances of the second Generation in Families of migrant Entrepreneurs

Authors Ursula Apitzsch
Year 2005
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
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32 Journal Article

How to attract migrant entrepreneurs to peripheral regions? Evidence from Poland

Authors Sabina Kubiciel-Lodzińska, Jolanta Maj, Alexandra David
Journal Name International Entrepreneurship Review
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35 Journal Article

Business Connections of Migrant Entrepreneurs: Finding a Niche in the Diverse City of Amsterdam

Authors Juan Francisco Alvarado Valenzuela
Year 2021
Book Title Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities
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36 Book Chapter

Structural Opportunity or Ethnic Advantage? Immigrant Business Development in New York

Authors Roger Waldinger
Year 1989
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 57
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37 Journal Article

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Migrant Entrepreneurship: Responses to the market shock

Authors Ekaterina Vorobeva, Léo-Paul Dana
Year 2021
Journal Name MIGRATION LETTERS
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38 Journal Article

POLITIC, BUSINESS AND CONFLICTS: THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING A FOREIGNER IN MEXICO DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Authors Jose Alfredo Uribe Salas
Year 2016
Journal Name REVISTA INCLUSIONES
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39 Journal Article

Business activities of immigrants from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia in Vienna. Group-specific branch concentrations versus locally determined variations

Authors Josef Kohlbacher, Ursula Reeger
Year 2016
Journal Name City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action
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40 Journal Article

Immigrant business in transnational contexts: a multifocal understanding of the breakout process

Authors Jude Kenechi Onyima, Stephen Syrett, Leandro Sepulveda
Year 2024
Journal Name International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
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42 Journal Article

ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURS - IMMIGRANT BUSINESS IN INDUSTRIAL-SOCIETIES - WALDINGER,RW, ALDRICH,H, WARD,R

Authors LJD WACQUANT
Year 1993
Journal Name Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales
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44 Journal Article

Processos de Transnacionalismo nos Empresários Nepaleses em Lisboa

Authors ISEG - University of Lisbon, Alexandra Pereira
Year 2021
Journal Name XI Portuguese Sociology Congress Papers
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45 Journal Article

Revisiting Ethnic Niches: A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Experiences of Asian and Latino Undocumented Young Adults

Authors Esther Yoona Cho
Year 2017
Journal Name RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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46 Journal Article

Immigrant business and niche formation in historical perspective: The Netherlands in the nineteenth century

Authors Marlou Schrover
Year 2001
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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47 Journal Article

Experience of migrant self-employment as „economisation of ethnicity”. Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs in Poland

Authors Katarzyna Andrejuk, Olena Oleksiyenko
Year 2018
Journal Name Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny
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48 Journal Article

The paradoxes of creativity in Guangzhou, China's wholesale market for fast fashion

Authors Nellie Chu
Year 2018
Journal Name Culture, Theory and Critique
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49 Journal Article

Migrant mentoring to work: Defining an old but- innovative instrument

Authors Cuyper P. De
Year 2019
Journal Name International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring
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50 Journal Article

TECHNOLOGICAL-CHANGE AND MIGRANT EMPLOYMENT

Authors J SLOAN, R KRIEGLER
Year 1984
Journal Name AUSTRALIAN QUARTERLY
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51 Journal Article

Policy Challenges and Opportunities: Migrant Female Entrepreneurs in Northern Europe

Authors Roberto P. Q. Falcão, Victoria Barbosa C. Cunha
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of Comparative International Management
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52 Journal Article

Identity work by a non-white immigrant business scholar: Autoethnographic vignettes of covering and accenting

Authors Mario Fernando, James Reveley, Mark Learmonth
Year 2020
Journal Name HUMAN RELATIONS
Citations (WoS) 33
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53 Journal Article

Riding the wave: resilient Polish migrant entrepreneurs navigating Brexit and COVID-19 in the UK

Authors Alexandra David, Judith Terstriep, Przemysław Zbierowski
Year 2023
Book Title Research Handbook on Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship
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54 Book Chapter

The role of (transnational) social capital in the start-up processes of immigrant businesses: The case of Chinese and Turkish restaurant businesses in Finland

Authors Saija Katila, Östen Wahlbeck
Year 2012
Journal Name International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship
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55 Journal Article

Network explanations of the gender gap in migrants’ employment patterns: Use of online and offline networks in the Netherlands

Authors Başak Bilecen, Verena Seibel
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Family Research
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56 Journal Article

Family influences on entrepreneurial orientation in immigrant entrepreneurship

Authors Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Quang Evansluong, Börje Boers
Year 2023
Journal Name International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
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57 Journal Article

Mexico, a Country for Immigrant Business: Small-scale Entrepreneurs and Self-employed Workers from Southern Europe

Authors Cristóbal Mendoza
Year 2020
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
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58 Journal Article

Migrants, Unemployment and Earnings in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area

Authors Mariano Sana
Year 1999
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 3
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59 Journal Article

Immigrant entrepreneur knowledge in the tourism industry of island destinations

Authors Pedro Calero-Lemes, Desiderio Juan Garcia-Almeida
Year 2020
Journal Name TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES
Citations (WoS) 3
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60 Journal Article

Ukrainian Immigrants and Entrepreneurship Drain: Towards a Concept of Governance-Induced Migration

Authors Katarzyna Andrejuk
Year 2019
Journal Name East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures
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61 Journal Article

Intersecting Policies of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Migration in the EU and the Netherlands

Authors Tesseltje de Lange
Year 2018
Book Title EU external migration policies in an era of global mobilities : intersecting policy universes
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62 Book Chapter

HINDRANCES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ETHNIC ECONOMY AMONG MEXICAN MIGRANTS

Authors MD VILLAR
Year 1994
Journal Name Human Organization
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63 Journal Article

Was the ministry an ethnic niche for urban Blacks in the early twentieth century?

Authors Robert L. Boyd
Year 2006
Journal Name The Social Science Journal
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64 Journal Article

Migrant workers in small London hotels: Employment, recruitment and distribution

Authors Eugenia Markova, Allan Williams, Anna Paraskevopoulou, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name European Urban and Regional Studies
Citations (WoS) 5
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66 Journal Article

Migration and remittances in Mexico: 1980-2010

Authors Esther Figueroa Hernandez, Francisco Perez Soto, Lucila Godinez Montoya
Year 2015
Journal Name NOESIS-REVISTA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y HUMANIDADES
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67 Journal Article

OECD Migration statistics: employment

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Employment, unemployment and participation rates by place of birth and sex.
Year 2000
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68 Data Set

Who Went South? The German Ethnic Niche in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

Authors Walter D. Kamphoefner
Year 2017
Journal Name Social Science History
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69 Journal Article

Commercial migration intermediaries and the segmentation of skilled migrant employment

Year 2016
Journal Name Work, employment and society
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70 Journal Article

Performance, labour flexibility and migrant workers in hotels: An establishment and departmental level analysis

Authors Natina Yaduma, Allan Williams, Andrew Lockwood, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name International Journal of Hospitality Management
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71 Journal Article

Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)

Principal investigator Karsten Giese (Principal Investigator ), Laurence Marfaing (Principal Investigator )
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Year 2011
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72 Project

Which migrant jobs are linked with the adoption of novel technologies, robotisation, and digitalisation?

Authors Mahdi Ghodsi, Robert Stehrer, Antea Barisic
Year 2024
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73 Journal Article

Migrant Employment and the Recession-the Case of the Irish in Britain

Authors F. X. Kirwin, A. G. Nairn
Year 1983
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 2
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74 Journal Article

Migrant Tourism Entrepreneurs in Rural Norway

Authors Ingvild Iversen, Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen
Year 2016
Journal Name Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
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75 Journal Article

The role of local perceptions in the marketing of rural areas

Authors Emma L. Giles, Gary Bosworth, Joanie Willett
Year 2013
Journal Name Journal of Destination Marketing & Management
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76 Journal Article

IMMIGRANT EMPLOYMENT TRAJECTORIES IN FRANCE, 1968-2008: A SOCIOHISTORICAL APPROACH

Authors Pierre Blavier, Anton Perdoncin
Year 2020
Journal Name Population
Citations (WoS) 1
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77 Journal Article

Jacy imigranci rejestrują się jako bezrobotni? Dynamika bezrobocia wśród cudzoziemców w R

Authors Katarzyna Andrejuk
Year 2018
Journal Name Studia Migracyjne-Przegląd Polonijnu
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78 Journal Article

South Australia's employment relief program for assisted immigrants: promises and reality, 1838-1843

Authors Edwyna Harris, Sumner La Croix
Year 2020
Journal Name LABOR HISTORY
Citations (WoS) 1
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79 Journal Article

Job separation rates of immigrants and natives in the UK during the Great Recession

Authors Dafni Papoutsaki
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Manpower
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80 Journal Article

Gaining from Rural Migrants: Migrant Employment Strategies and Socioeconomic Implications for Rural Labour Markets

Authors Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Costas Pappas
Year 2010
Journal Name Sociologia Ruralis
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81 Journal Article

Subsidy policies with capital accumulation: Maintaining employment levels

Authors Bhaskar Duttal, IraN. Gang, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay
Year 1989
Journal Name Journal of Population Economics
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82 Journal Article

The impact of Hukou status on migrants' employment - Findings from the 1997 be migrant census

Authors F Guo, R Iredale
Year 2004
Journal Name International Migration Review
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83 Journal Article

Wage formation, regional migration and local labour market tightness

Authors Fredrik Carlsen, Kare Johansen, Knut Roed
Year 2006
Journal Name OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
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85 Journal Article

Immigrant entrepreneurship in Norway

Year 2008
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86 Doctoral Dissertation

On the potential interaction between labour market institutions and immigration policies

Authors Claudia Cigagna, Giovanni Sulis
Year 2015
Journal Name International Journal of Manpower
Citations (WoS) 2
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88 Journal Article

Welcome home in a crisis: Effects of return migration on the non-migrants' wages and employment

Authors Ricardo Hausmann, Ljubica Nedelkoska
Year 2018
Journal Name European Economic Review
Citations (WoS) 4
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89 Journal Article

Employment, wages, and the economic cycle: Differences between immigrants and natives

Authors Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz, Thorsten Vogel
Year 2010
Journal Name European Economic Review
Citations (WoS) 56
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92 Journal Article

Immigration, trade and ‘ethnic surplus value’: a critique of Indo–Canadian transnational networks

Authors MARGARET WALTON‐ROBERTS
Year 2011
Journal Name Global Networks
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93 Journal Article

EU LFS (European Union Labour Force Survey)

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Year 1983
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94 Data Set

Post-migration employment changes and health: A dyadic spousal analysis

Authors Annie Ro, Rachel E. Goldberg
Year 2017
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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95 Journal Article

Mismatch in the Norwegian Labour Market 2003-2013: Did Immigrants Make a Difference?

Authors Dag Kolsrud
Year 2018
Journal Name Social Indicators Research
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96 Journal Article

RURAL UNEMPLOYMENT IN RUSSIA: REASONS AND REGULATION MECHANISM

Authors Vadim Babushkin, Alexander Dubovitski, Elvira Klimentova, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Immigrant Youth and Employment: Lessons Learned from the Analysis of LSIC and 82 Lived Stories
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97 Journal Article

Rural unemployment pushes migrants to urban areas in Jiangsu Province, China

Authors Haoyang Lyu, Zengchuan Dong, Mahendran Roobavannan, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name PALGRAVE COMMUNICATIONS
Citations (WoS) 35
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98 Journal Article

Unemployment and spell duration during the Great Recession in the EU

Authors Carlos Gradin, Olga Canto, Coral del Rio
Year 2015
Journal Name International Journal of Manpower
Citations (WoS) 5
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99 Journal Article
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