The analysis of the decision to enter into self‐employment is a hot topic in the economic
literature. Among the elements that most directly influence this decision, individual factors …

▪ Abstract This paper reviews studies of ethnicity in plural societies. The literature
concentrates on the social networks of ethnic groups, the use of social capital derived from …

The entrepreneurial process drives economic activities in the formal economy; however, little
is known theoretically about how the entrepreneurial process works in the informal …

Assimilation theory has been subject to intensive critique for decades. Yet no other
framework has provided the social science community with as deep a corpus of cumulative …

Duke University lation and adaptation to exploitation work differently when all parties are
intimately connected to one another (as within households) or when most do not even know …

The United States has frequently experienced outbursts of ethnic violence during its history,
but the historical evidence indicates that not all ethnic groups were equally likely to be …

For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those
from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain …

We examine how self-employment among Asian and Hispanic immigrants is affected by
family composition and human capital/class resources. Because of collective interests and …

There is widespread concern in Europe and other refugee-receiving continents that living in
an enclave of coethnics hinders refugees' economic and social integration. Several …

In the past thirty years, many concepts and theories on ethnic entrepreneurship have been
developed, challenged, and revised to provide a fuller account of the phenomenon. This …