caa a22 4500 60616572X CHVBK 20210128100655.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00168-015-0692-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00168-015-0692-y Analyzing the influence of social capital on self-employment: a study of Chinese immigrants [Elektronische Daten] [Isidoro Romero, Zhikun Yu] This paper studies the influence of social capital on immigrants' self-employment, differentiating between structural, relational and cognitive social capital. The paper has a particular focus on Chinese immigrants and explores the effects of the so-called guanxi, a specific form of social capital for Chinese communities. The empirical research is based on a survey conducted in 2012 among Chinese immigrants in Andalusia (Spain) in which both business owners and paid employees were interviewed. A logistic regression specification was employed to test the hypotheses. The results show that the Chinese immigrants with greater structural and relational social capital and better ‘guanxi' are more likely to become business owners. On the contrary, cognitive social capital seems to favor the option for paid employment versus the option for self-employment among Chinese immigrants. However, in the specific case of the Chinese immigrants who have a business owner in their family, the cognitive social capital also has positive effects on self-employment. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Romero Isidoro Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, University of Seville, Av. Ramón y Cajal, 41018, Seville, Spain aut Yu Zhikun Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, University of Seville, Av. Ramón y Cajal, 41018, Seville, Spain aut The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 54/3(2015-05-01), 877-899 0570-1864 54:3<877 2015 54 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0692-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0692-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Romero Isidoro Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, University of Seville, Av. Ramón y Cajal, 41018, Seville, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yu Zhikun Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, University of Seville, Av. Ramón y Cajal, 41018, Seville, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 54/3(2015-05-01), 877-899 0570-1864 54:3<877 2015 54 168