Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany
This empirical study investigates the determinants of self-employment propensity of Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany. The German economy is an important object of analysis, as it is the most important destination for international migrants in the European Union. In the paper, we use the rec...
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
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| author | Marek Szarucki Jan Brzozowski Jelena Stankevičienė |
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| description | This empirical study investigates the determinants of self-employment propensity of Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany. The German economy is an important object of analysis, as it is the most important destination for international migrants in the European Union. In the paper, we use the recently collected M sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine which personal, country of birth-specific socio-economic and cultural factors influence the self-employment propensity of immigrants. The results of binominal logit regression show that the Central European migrants exhibit different self-employment propensity than migrants from former Yugoslavia, Russian and Kazakhstan, Turkey and Italy, with the self-employment aversion especially strong among Romanians. These differences remain substantial even after controlling for social and human capital endowment of the individuals. This study offers important policy recommendations, showing the potential obstacles in encouraging entrepreneurial activity of immigrants. This topic is becoming increasingly important with the current migration crisis in the EU, caused by intensive inflow of asylum-seeking foreigners in 2015. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-550d13aec8de48bbb64681d46ff0f6732022-12-21T23:18:33ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityJournal of Business Economics and Management1611-16992029-44332016-07-0117410.3846/16111699.2016.1202313Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in GermanyMarek Szarucki0Jan Brzozowski1Jelena Stankevičienė2Department of Strategic Analyses, Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, PolandDepartment of Economics and Social Sciences (DISES), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, ItalyFaculty of Business Management, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, LithuaniaThis empirical study investigates the determinants of self-employment propensity of Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany. The German economy is an important object of analysis, as it is the most important destination for international migrants in the European Union. In the paper, we use the recently collected M sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine which personal, country of birth-specific socio-economic and cultural factors influence the self-employment propensity of immigrants. The results of binominal logit regression show that the Central European migrants exhibit different self-employment propensity than migrants from former Yugoslavia, Russian and Kazakhstan, Turkey and Italy, with the self-employment aversion especially strong among Romanians. These differences remain substantial even after controlling for social and human capital endowment of the individuals. This study offers important policy recommendations, showing the potential obstacles in encouraging entrepreneurial activity of immigrants. This topic is becoming increasingly important with the current migration crisis in the EU, caused by intensive inflow of asylum-seeking foreigners in 2015.https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/JBEM/article/view/2257immigrant self-employmententrepreneurshipself-employment determinantseconomic integrationinternational migrationGermany |
| spellingShingle | Marek Szarucki Jan Brzozowski Jelena Stankevičienė Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany Journal of Business Economics and Management immigrant self-employment entrepreneurship self-employment determinants economic integration international migration Germany |
| title | Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany |
| title_full | Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany |
| title_fullStr | Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany |
| title_short | Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany |
| title_sort | determinants of self employment among polish and romanian immigrants in germany |
| topic | immigrant self-employment entrepreneurship self-employment determinants economic integration international migration Germany |
| url | https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/JBEM/article/view/2257 |
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