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The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective

verfasst von: Mingzhi Hu, Zhongfeng Su, Wenping Ye

Erschienen in: Small Business Economics | Ausgabe 2/2023

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Immigrants came from different countries exhibit a high diversity in self-employment rates, making it vital to identify the sources of this diversity. Drawing on the linguistic relativity theory and imprinting theory, we argue that the future-time reference of home-country language is a key source, as it forms an imprinting on an immigrant of how to value future rewards and then affects his/her behaviors. Utilizing data collected by the American Housing Survey, we find that home- country language with weak future-time reference encourages an immigrant to be self-employed and the effect is mitigated by duration of residence. We clarify a new source of diversity in self- employment rates across immigrant groups. Moreover, we extend the implications of future-time reference to immigrant self-employment and identify a novel way by which duration of residence plays its role in immigrant life.

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Because of the space reason, we did not introduce the AHS in details. For more information, please see the website at: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs/data.html

For the space reason, we do not introduce much about how Chen (2013) codes language FTR. Please see Chen (2013) for details.

Some countries, such as Canada which uses both English and French, have two or more official languages. As the AHS does not ask respondents about their original languages, we took the first official language to code the FTR of home-country language. We deleted immigrants from these countries to re-run the empirical tests and obtained the same findings (see the robustness checks). Hence, this issue does not have serious effects on the findings of this study.

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Titel: The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective
verfasst von: Mingzhi Hu
Zhongfeng Su
Wenping Ye
Publikationsdatum: 12.02.2022
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Small Business Economics / Ausgabe 2/2023
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-022-00601-0

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