Open for Business Migrant Entrepreneurship in OECD Countries

Migrants contribute to the economic growth of their host countries in many ways, bringing new skills and competencies with them and helping to reduce labour shortages.  An aspect that has received only limited attention up to now is migrants' contribution to entrepreneurial activity and employm...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2010
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The contribution of migrants in enhancing foreign trade
  • Migrant women entrepreneurhip in OECD countries
  • Self-employment amongst ethnic and migrant groups in the United Kingdom
  • Entrepreneurship among immigrants in Switzerland
  • Latina entrepreneurship and recent self-employment trends in the United States
  • Migration policies in OECD countries to manage the migration of foreign entrepreneurs and investors
  • Main Findings of the Conference on Entrepreneurship and Employment Creation of Immigrants in OECD Countries, 9-10 June 2010, Paris
  • The determinants of immigrant entrepreneurship and employment creation in Portugal
  • Enterprises created in 2002 by non-EU nationals in France: finding it harder to survive
  • Skilled immigrants' contribution to innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States
  • Mexican-American entrepreneurs and their contribution to the US economy
  • Business creation in France by entrepreneurs from outside the European Union
  • Improving access to credit for migrant enterprises
  • Migrant entrepreneurship in OECD countries and its contribution to employment
  • Shifting landscapes of immigrant entrepreneurship
  • Chinese entrepreneurship in Canada
  • Foreword