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Table 4 Self-employment decision by country of origin with network effect (average marginal effects)

From: Ethnic capital and self-employment: a spatially autoregressive network approach

 

United Kingdom & Ireland

China

India

Ethnic capital

   

Network effect†

0.03***

0.09***

0.04***

 

(0.011)

(0.033)

(0.013)

Ethnic concentration effect

-0.0007

0.003**

-0.0008***

 

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.0003)

Selected human capital

   

Experience

0.0016***

0.0024***

0.0004***

 

(0.0002)

(0.0007)

(0.0001)

Self-employment experience (origin)

0.0009***

0.0008**

0.0009***

 

(0.0002)

(0.0004)

(0.0003)

High skilled

0.0005

-0.054***

-0.002**

 

(0.0007)

(0.0018)

(0.0009)

English proficiency

/

-0.0002

0.0013***

 

/

(0.002)

(0.0004)

Manager & professional

0.0006

0.0057***

0.0004

 

(0.0005)

(0.002)

(0.0004)

Selected personal characteristics

   

Years Since Migration (YSM)

0.0008***

0.0040***

0.0004

 

(0.0002)

(0.001)

(0.0003)

Married

0.0032***

0.0021**

0.0010**

 

(0.0006)

(0.001)

(0.0004)

Children

-0.0031***

-0.004***

-0.002***

 

(0.0006)

(0.0014)

(0.0006)

Own dwelling

0.0015**

-0.0034***

0.0001

 

(0.0006)

(0.001)

(0.0001)

  1. Note: † Network (weighted ethnic spatial lag `Wy') is treated as an endogenous variable.
  2. (1) Panel Logit estimations.
  3. (2) Standard errors in parentheses.
  4. (3) *p<0.10 **p<0.05 ***p<0.01.