Entrepreneurship and economic progress in the 1990s: A comparative analysis of immigrants and African Americans

Immigration and Opportuntity: Race, Ethnicity, and Employment in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 143-171

  Portes, Alejandro ^a   Zhou, Min ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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