Do immigrant-owned businesses grow financially? An empirical study of African immigrant-owned businesses in the South Africa
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Keywords
Immigrant entrepreneurship; immigrant-owned businesses; financial capital; financial growth; African immigrants; business start-up resources and South Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
- A19 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Other
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- A10 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-08-23 (Africa)
- NEP-ENT-2012-08-23 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-MIG-2012-08-23 (Economics of Human Migration)
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