Immigration and Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Study in the United States

WANG, QINGFANG

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2257.2010.00532.x

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“…Overall, as a new immigrant destination, the international communities and ethnic entrepreneurial activities are still being developed in Charlotte, and political participation by immigrants is at its very early stage. The local social and political infrastructure for immigrant integration is far from being developed to the same extent as that in the established immigration gateway (Singer 2004;Wang 2010). Limited political involvement may hinder social and economic mobility, and broader immigrant integration (Jiménez 2011).…”

Section: Political Interactionsmentioning

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Immigrant businesses, place-making, and community development: a case from an emerging immigrant gateway

Schuch

2015

Journal of Cultural Geography

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Immigrant businesses have become an increasingly important component in the US economy. However, very few studies have systematically examined the role of immigrant businesses in community development, except for some cases in established immigrant gateways such as New York and Miami. In this study, we explore how immigrant businesses are shaping physical, cultural, social, economic, and political landscapes in their local communities in the emerging immigrant gateway of Charlotte, North Carolina. Focusing on the case of a multiethnic retail corridor, we find that, as active place-makers, immigrant businesses have transformed deteriorating and abandoned street fronts into vibrant and well-frequented urban environments conducive for further development. Through a systematic approach to understanding the place-making process of immigrant businesses, findings from this study call for more in-depth integration of immigrant and ethnic economies in local policies and planning strategies for neighborhood revitalization. These findings are particularly pertinent in the context of the continuous ethnic diversification of our neighborhoods and cities.

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Section: Political Interactionsmentioning

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Immigrant businesses, place-making, and community development: a case from an emerging immigrant gateway

Schuch

2015

Journal of Cultural Geography

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“…Population diversity also has a stable effect on Hispanic business ownership across 50 MSAs (Hackler and Mayer, 2008). In addition, different types of immigrant gateways have distinctive impacts on ethnic entrepreneurship, which is also affected by the regional labor market (Wang, 2010).…”

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“…While the importance and growth of ethnic enterprises have been well documented in recent literature, their intrametropolitan location pattern and relative performance in central cities and suburbs have not been systematically examined. Regional and metropolitan opportunity structure, local economic conditions, demographic dynamics, institutional capacity, policy environment and social milieu all interact to shape the course of business development and entrepreneurial activities (Armington and Acs, 2002;Lee, Florida and Acs, 2004;Hackler and Mayer, 2008;Wang 2010). On the metropolitan level, metropolitan structural and spatial factors, as exemplified by access to financial resources, market access (industry intensity), entrepreneurial skills integration and institutional support, play an important role in women-, Hispanic-, and black-owned businesses more than human capital related factors.…”

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From Cities to Suburbs: Intrametropolitan Location and Growth of Ethnic Enterprises

Liu

Abdullahi

2012

SSRN Journal

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This study traces the geographic evolution of minority-owned businesses in submetropolitan areas across the United States and investigates potential factors that underlie their intra-metropolitan location shift. Using data from the 2002 and 2007 Survey of Business Owner, this study addresses these questions for Asian-, Black-and Hispanic-owned enterprises in 19 selected large metropolitan areas in the U.S. It is found that ethnic enterprises have a stronger presence in the cities versus the suburbs but have experienced faster growth in the suburbs. The rate and direction of this spatial shift varies by ethnic business type, region, and metropolitan context.

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“…While addressing the question on how metropolitan area conditions impact ethnic labour force entrepreneurial choices across ethnicity and gender, within the contexts of different types of immigration gateways in the US, Wang (2010) observed that women were less likely to be self-employed than men, across all ethnic groups. The trend was more prominent for Afro-Americans and Asians.…”

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Earnings Outcomes in Metropolitan and Regional Labour Markets– A Gender-Based Analysis for New South Wales and Victoria

Hicks¹,

Mallik

Basu³

2018

Proceedings of the 38th International Academic Conference, Prague

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It is generally accepted that the key characteristics of labour markets in Australian capital cities differ from those of the labour markets in the rest of Australia although labour market policy is typically conducted at the national level without taking regional differences into account. Gender issues have frequently been highlighted in the many analyses of urban Australian labour markets. Other studies have focused on the urban-regional dichotomy of the labour market. However, although studies of labour market features and outcomes in Australia have focused on issues related to location or gender, they rarely address both. This paper seeks to establish if discrimination by gender differs between regional and urban communities in the Australian context. The conceptual framework used in this research is in the tradition of human capital analysis. We first analyse, separately, determinants of hourly wage rates and weekly incomes by gender in Australian metropolitan cities and regional areas. We then utilise the Blinder-Oaxaca procedure, to decompose the mean outcome differences between men and women within a region into that part that is 'explained' by gender differences in endowments and that part which remains unexplained by such differences and which therefore provides a measure of discrimination. The data is drawn from individual level confidentialised unit record files (CURF) data of the 2006 Australian Census. Gender-based analysis is conducted for each region, Sydney, regional NSW, Melbourne and regional Victoria, with a view to discerning if the impact of the determinants vary spacially. The research confirmed that gender plays an important role in influencing labour market outcomes. The research also identified a number of factors that impact on both hourly wages and weekly earnings and assessed how these factors impacted differently for men and women across metropolitan and regional areas. The results indicate that, in general, differences exist between men and women in hourly wage rate and weekly income earned. The determinants of these differences varied between metropolitan cities and regional areas. With respect to issues of gender discrimination in employment, the use of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique confirmed the presence of discrimination against women in all regions. Wage discrimination is more pronounced in metropolitan areas whilst discrimination in weekly earnings is more important in non-metropolitan areas. The latter discrimination is likely to reflect both fewer job opportunities for women and a lower ownership of income earning assets by women.

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Immigration and Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Study in the United States

Cited by 28 publications

References 59 publications

Immigrant businesses, place-making, and community development: a case from an emerging immigrant gateway

Immigrant businesses, place-making, and community development: a case from an emerging immigrant gateway

From Cities to Suburbs: Intrametropolitan Location and Growth of Ethnic Enterprises

Earnings Outcomes in Metropolitan and Regional Labour Markets– A Gender-Based Analysis for New South Wales and Victoria

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