Analysis of the Entrepreneurial Immigrant Profile in Spain

Vázquez de la Torre Genoveva Millán, Navajas-Romero Virginia and Rojas Ricardo Hernández
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Vázquez de la Torre Genoveva Millán: Titular Professor, Department of Management and Quantitative Methods, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain
Navajas-Romero Virginia: PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Econometrics, Operations Research, Business Organization and Applied Economics, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
Rojas Ricardo Hernández: PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Financial Economics, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 93-104

Abstract: Although the immigrant population in Spain has decreased due to the economic crisis of the past five years, few studies have analysed this group. The objective of this research has been to profile the immigrant who decides to start a business in Spain. In order to learn about the probability of immigrant workers being entrepreneurs as a function of their socio-demographic characteristics, data from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics from 2005 to 2016 have been analysed and fieldwork carried out during August and September 2016 on immigrants who are self-employed. The results show a lower rate of entrepreneurship in the immigrant population vis-a-vis the native population and the fact that creating their own business begins at an earlier age for immigrants when compared to the national average.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; immigration; Spain; logit models; crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/mjss-2019-0010

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