The Role of Turkish Immigrants in Entrepreneurial Activities in Germany

Amelie Constant (), Yochanan Shachmurove () and Klaus F. Zimmermann ()

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Abstract: This paper addresses a central issue to migration the role of immigrants in entrepreneurial activity. In particular, the paper focuses on the determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur for Turks living in Germany. The paper provides some important benchmarks, including the self-employment behavior of natives. The paper utilizes a comprehensive and reliable data base, the German Socioeconomic Panel to undertake systematic econometric analyses using appropriate statistical methods. The findings are that observable characteristics play different roles in the self-employment choice of immigrants and natives, whereas age-earnings profiles are similar for native and immigrant entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Self-employment; Immigration; Guest-workers; Turkey; Germany; European Union; German Socioeconomic Panel Data; Binomial Logit; Treiman international occupational prestige scale. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J0 C23 C25 F22 J23 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-ent, nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-soc
Date: 2005-10-01
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