Language skills and migrant entrepreneurship: evidence from China

Wei, Xiahai; Jiao, Yang; Growe, Glenn A.

doi:10.1007/s11187-018-0105-6

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“…This is probably because a greater distance makes it more difficult to have detailed knowledge of local market conditions. Regarding our results relating to language distance, studies such as that of Wei (2018) find that gaining local dialect skills positively influences the decision of migrants to become either necessity-or opportunitydriven entrepreneurs. However, according to our results, there is a counter-balancing effect from the local culture.…”

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confidence: 55%

Immigrants' entrepreneurial motivation in Europe: liabilities and assets

Cabrera

Lucia–Casademunt

Angulo

2020

IJEBR

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PurposeThis paper examines how the institutional distance between immigrants' country of residence and country of origin, as well as the regulative and normative aspects of institutions in immigrants' country of residence, social context variables and individual psycho-behavioural factors, condition immigrants' entrepreneurial motivation (i.e. mainly by necessity, by a combination of necessity and opportunity, or mainly by opportunity), which is in contrast to the previous literature on immigrant entrepreneurship that mainly focuses on micro-level factors.Design/methodology/approachBy using hierarchical linear regression models to test our hypotheses, the authors analyse 468 first-generation immigrant entrepreneurs settled in 31 European countries using data from the European Working Conditions Survey (6th EWCS; Eurofound, 2015 database) combined with other datasets to derive the macro-level variables (i.e. the Doing Business Project; Hofstede et al., 2010).FindingsThe authors find that distance in the normative aspects of institutions harms entrepreneurial opportunity motivation. At the same time, however, opportunity motivation is likely to benefit from both the normative aspects of institutions that reduce locals' opportunity motivation and the distance in the regulative aspects of institutions.Originality/valueThis article analyses immigrant entrepreneurship in Europe, which has been under-examined in the extant literature, and takes into account the micro-, meso- and macro-level factors affecting the entrepreneurial motivation of immigrants in Europe. This analysis responds to the need already highlighted by previous research to include not only micro-level factors but also meso- and macro-level factors in the analysis of immigrant entrepreneurship (Aliaga-Isla and Rialp, 2013).

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Section: Discussion Of Resultsmentioning

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Immigrants' entrepreneurial motivation in Europe: liabilities and assets

Cabrera

Lucia–Casademunt

Angulo

2020

IJEBR

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“…We first discuss entrepreneurs and then look at employees. Conventional literature suggests that migrant entrepreneurs (both internal and international) are usually talented people who are confident about their business ideas (Wei et al, 2019). They make decisions to migrate to new locations to fully develop their business ventures because of the pull factors in the host regions, such as effective institutional settings (Fawcett James & Gardner Robert, 1994), access to financial capital (Sahin et al, 2011), and well‐established entrepreneurial networks (Rath & Swagerman, 2016).…”

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Internal migration and earnings: Do migrant entrepreneurs and migrant employees differ?

Nguyen

2022

Papers in Regional Science

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People move from one region of a country to another not only for employment but also for business opportunities.Their earnings, relative to those of comparable local employees and local entrepreneurs, reflect the efficiency of internal migration policies. Investigating a large number of migrants and non-migrants in Vietnam, we find that while migrant entrepreneurs earn more than local entrepreneurs, migrant employees earn less than their local counterparts.Moreover, regions with unalloyed socialist norms (North Vietnam) enhance migrants' advantages, leading to higher earnings, whereas migrants in regions with proentrepreneurship norms (South Vietnam) find it difficult to compete with the locals.

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“…A wealthy host country attracts talented people from developing/developing economies (Mahroum, 2000). Highly skilled migrants participate in the host labor market when they pass the entry labor market conditions to protect host country employees (Kloosterman, 2010;Williams & Krasniqi, 2018;Wei et al, 2019;Guerrero et al, 2021). To contribute to this academic debate, we encourage future research to incite the discussion on (i) the flow of talent from/in emerging economies; (ii) the integration of migrants in the local labor markets; (iii) the role of entrepreneurship as an integration platform in emerging economies, and (iv) the human capital component among entrepreneurial migrants' teams.…”

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Entrepreneurial migrants from/in emerging economies: breaking taboos and stereotypes

Guerrero

Wanjiru

2021

Int Entrep Manag J

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Entrepreneurial migration from/in emerging economies, as grand societal and humanitarian challenges that we currently face, underscores the need for scholarly research. In our role as social science researchers, this special issue aimed to stimulate scholars from different social science fields to rethink more broadly about the opportunities for making an impact with our research focus on entrepreneurial migration from/in emerging economies. This article provides an overview of the theoretical, empirical, managerial, and policy implications of entrepreneurial migrants from/in emerging economies research. It puts forward key concepts and measures, explores the relations within the current broader literature on migration and entrepreneurship, and identifies several gaps that represent future research questions. We also introduce eight papers in a special section of this issue, which offer answers to critical gaps and questioning some taboos/stereotypes related entrepreneurial migrants. We conclude by outlining an agenda for engaging the academic community to extend research on entrepreneurial migrants from/in emerging economies. It is the perfect time to "make a difference" through our research, teaching, and interaction with multiple socioeconomic agents to constitute impacts that "endorse a real transformation" for supporting the migrants' community.

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Language skills and migrant entrepreneurship: evidence from China

Cited by 31 publications

References 48 publications

Immigrants' entrepreneurial motivation in Europe: liabilities and assets

Immigrants' entrepreneurial motivation in Europe: liabilities and assets

Internal migration and earnings: Do migrant entrepreneurs and migrant employees differ?

Entrepreneurial migrants from/in emerging economies: breaking taboos and stereotypes

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