Self?Employment amongst Migrant Groups in England and Wales: New Evidence from Census Microdata
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- Ken Clark & Stephen Drinkwater & Catherine Robinson, 2016. "Self-Employment Amongst Migrant Groups in England and Wales: New Evidence from Census Microdata," RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series 1605, Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM).
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Keywords
self‐employment; immigrants; United Kingdom;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2015-12-08 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-EUR-2015-12-08 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LMA-2015-12-08 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2015-12-08 (Economics of Human Migration)
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