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SUMMARY:Immigration and Entrepreneurship: the Role of Enclaves
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Astrid Marinoni (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Mana
 gement)\nAstrid Marinoni (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Managem
 ent)\n"Immigration and Entrepreneurship: the Role of Enclaves"\nDiscussant
 : Ina Ganguli (University of Massachusetts Amherst)\n\nAbstract\nImmigrati
 on is a major force driving entrepreneurial dynamics that affects the comp
 etitive landscape of an economy\, as well as its growth prospects. In inve
 stigating the impact of immigration on entrepreneurship\, this study focus
 es on how the presence of enclaves alters this relationship\, by relying o
 n a novel dataset on incorporation in Great Britain. I examine the impact 
 of Polish immigration to Great Britain by exploiting the unprecedented mig
 ration wave caused by the European Union enlargement in 2004. To instrumen
 t for enclaves and immigration flows\, I use the presence of historical Po
 lish military settlements as well as a shift-share instrument that conside
 rs the historical occupational composition and growth of Polish immigratio
 n in Ireland. The results indicate that immigration increases immigrant en
 trepreneurship\, but this does not hold in existing immigrant enclaves. Ad
 ditional analyses exploring the mechanisms suggest that the blocked labor 
 market in non-enclave areas could be the main driver for the increase in e
 ntrepreneurship. When examining growth\, I find that immigrant entrepreneu
 rs outside enclaves tend to achieve worse outcomes\, providing support to 
 the idea that they might resort to entrepreneurship out of necessity.\n\n\
 n\nEPFL Virtual Innovation Seminar\nEVIS is a bi-weekly virtual seminar se
 ries focusing on Science\, Technology and Innovation topics studied throug
 h the lens of Economics\, Entrepreneurship\, Strategy and Finance.\n 
LOCATION:Zoom
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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