Doctoral Dissertation Research: Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Opportunity Structure and Inter-group Relations

在过去的几十年里，移民企业家的增长已经在美国大多数大城市中产生了独特而重要的影响。其中一些移民的自我雇佣率现在超过了本土出生的人，尤其是黑人。犹太人和韩国人等移民群体被吹捧为“模范少数民族”，他们只是通过努力工作获得成功。本论文改进项目研究了三个方面：(1)通过考察移民企业家的雇佣行为，研究移民企业家影响黑人就业机会结构的方式；(2)社会结构和过程如何帮助解释移民个体经营比黑人更成功；(3)犹太人、朝鲜人和黑人之间的种族间和民族间关系。样本人口包括75名企业家和75名顾客，他们来自纽约和费城两个城市的五个以黑人为主的社区。通过对犹太人、韩国人和黑人企业家以及低收入和中等收入社区的黑人顾客进行比较分析，阐明商人和顾客的结构关系、种族、民族、阶级、文化和经济组织之间的相互作用。* * * * *? ?

9633345 Gans Over the past decades, the growth of immigrant entrepreneurs has made a distinct and consequential presence in most large U.S. cities. The self-employment rate for some of these immigrants now exceeds that of the native born, particularly blacks. Immigrant groups such as Jews and Koreans have been touted as "model minorities" who have become successful simply through hard work. This Dissertation Improvement project investigates three areas: (1) the ways in which immigrant entrepreneurs affect the employment opportunity structure for blacks by examining their hiring practices; (2) the ways in which social structures and processes help explain the greater success of self-employment among immigrants as compared to blacks; (3) the interracial and inter-ethnic relations between Jews, Koreans, and black. The sample population consists of 75 entrepreneurs and 75 customers from five largely black neighborhoods in two cities, New York and Philadelphia. A comparative analysis will be conducted of Jewish, Korean and black entrepreneurs as well as black customers in low-income and middle-income neighborhoods to illuminate the interplay between the structural relationship of merchant and customer, race, ethnicity, class, culture and economic organization. ***** ??