Immigrant business proprietors in England and Wales (1851-1911)
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Peer-reviewed
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Smith, Harry https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0961-9411
Bennett, RJ
Van Lieshout, Carry https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3856-3701
Abstract
jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pThis article examines the history of immigrant business proprietors in England and Wales between 1851 and 1911. The newly available electronic version of the Census (I-CeM) allows all business proprietors in each Census year to be identified, and provides birthplace information that allows entrepreneurs from different countries to be compared to each other and to business proprietors born in the United Kingdom. Immigrant populations had higher rates of business proprietorship than the English and Welsh-born population. This article argues that this was caused by labour market structure and demography rather than cultural differences between English- and foreign-born business proprietors.</jats:p>
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44 Human Society, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4403 Demography
Journal Title
Continuity and Change
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0268-4160
1469-218X
1469-218X
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34
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Economic and Social Research Council (ES/M010953/1)
Isaac Newton Trust (17.07(d))
Isaac Newton Trust (17.07(d))