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Why Do Migrant Women Entrepreneurs Enter the Informal Economy? Evidence from Israel

In: Informal Ethnic Entrepreneurship

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  • Sibylle Heilbrunn

    (Kinneret Academic College, Sea of Galilee
    Haifa University)

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to understand why women migrants enter precarious self-employment at the margins of the formal economy. More specifically, the study asked to explore and document the intersection of gender, precarious forms of self-employment and migration status at various locations on the continuum of the formal and informal economic sector. The author conducted eight interviews with female migrant self-employed owners of mostly micro businesses applying criterion sampling method. The findings revealed that locating the business in the formal sector of the economy went along with belonging to a migration group with more human, social and cultural capital, being less discriminated against, better coping with obstacles and barriers and less exposure to precariousness. Those businesses located in the informal economic were established by migrant women belonging to the most marginalized group of Israeli society, triple disadvantaged as being women, migrants and black, not being able to cope with barriers and obstacles and high exposure to precariousness.

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  • Sibylle Heilbrunn, 2019. "Why Do Migrant Women Entrepreneurs Enter the Informal Economy? Evidence from Israel," Springer Books, in: Veland Ramadani & Léo-Paul Dana & Vanessa Ratten & Abdylmenaf Bexheti (ed.), Informal Ethnic Entrepreneurship, pages 211-223, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-99064-4_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99064-4_14
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