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The Employment Potential of Refugee Entrepreneurship: Soviet Jews and Vietnamese in California

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Research concerning immigrant and ethnic business formation has focused almost exclusively upon the enterprises of economically motivated immigrants and long established refugees. Ignored are the businesses opened by recent refugees who, since 1975, account for 20% of the legal entrants to the United States. Because refugees have different social and demographic characteristics than economic immigrants and come to the U.S. for different reasons, they reveal distinct entrepreneurial behaviors. Relying on a sample of 67 Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese enterprises in California, this study explores the prospects for refugee self‐employment. It considers the characteristics of self‐employed refugees, their resources and motives for openingbusinesses, and their use of community‐based sources of capital, labor, customers and information.

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  • Steven J. Gold, 1992. "The Employment Potential of Refugee Entrepreneurship: Soviet Jews and Vietnamese in California," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 11(2), pages 176-186, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:11:y:1992:i:2:p:176-186
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1992.tb00400.x
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    3. Nina Lazarczyk-Bilal & Beata Glinka, 2020. "What Determines the Entrepreneurial Intentions of Highly-Skilled Women with Refugee Experience? An Empirical Analysis in the Context of Sweden," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-18, December.
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    6. Olive Melissa Minor & Michelle Cameo, 2018. "A Comparison of Wages by Gender and Region of Origin for Newly Arrived Refugees in the USA," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 19(3), pages 813-828, August.
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    9. Solomon Akele Abebe, 2023. "Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 315-350, January.

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