Ethnic Competition or Complementarity: Which Drives (Returns to) Self-employment?

Joanna Nestorowicz and Joanna Tyrowicz

No 2013-15, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between ethnic competition and complementarity in returns to self-employment. We use detailed individual data from the U.S. censuses. We find that while in general business competition is detrimental to profitability, higher self-employment concentrations of co-ethnics are associated with increase in returns.

Keywords: self-employment; ethnic entrepreneurship; competition; complementarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D2 J3 J42 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2013
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