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Title: What Metropolitan-Level Factors Affect Latino Owned Business Performance?

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Since the mid-nineteenth century, immigrants to the United States have, to a larger degree than the larger population, tried their hand at starting their own businesses. While the Latinos who began entering the United States in greater numbers in the 1990s and 2000s do not self-employ as much as did immigrants from central and eastern Europe in the 1880s or immigrants from Korea in the 1970s, an estimated 1.54 million Latinos are self-employed in unincorporated businesses, while the 2012 national Survey of Business Owners counted 3.3 million Latino-owned firms, with a total of $474 million in annual sales or receipts. This entrepreneurship is all the more remarkable given that Latinos traditionally begin their businesses with lower levels of personal capital and have historically had more difficulty obtaining formal startup capital from . . .

Url: https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/60783/DOYLE-DISSERTATION-2018.pdf

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Authors: Doyle, Jessica Lynn Harbour

Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology

Department: School of City and Regional Planning

Advisor: Catherine L. Ross

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Atlanta

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other

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