Immigrant Self-Employment: Does Intermarriage Matter?
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- Dimitris Georgarakos & Konstantinos Tatsiramos, 2009. "Immigrant self-employment: does intermarriage matter?," Research in Labor Economics,in: Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes, volume 29, pages 253-271 Emerald Publishing Ltd.
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Keywords
business ownership; migration; native spouse; social networks;JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2009-08-22 (All new papers)
- NEP-ENT-2009-08-22 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-MIG-2009-08-22 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-SBM-2009-08-22 (Small Business Management)
- NEP-SOC-2009-08-22 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
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