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Informality and Latino‐Owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino‐Owned Businesses
Author(s) -
Pisani Michael J.,
Morales Alfonso
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
social science quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1540-6237
pISSN - 0038-4941
DOI - 10.1111/ssqu.12763
Subject(s) - odds , demographics , portrait , entrepreneurship , acculturation , logistic regression , ethnic group , sample (material) , demographic economics , business , product (mathematics) , baseline (sea) , marketing , sociology , computer science , political science , economics , demography , geography , law , finance , mathematics , chromatography , machine learning , chemistry , archaeology , geometry
Objective This study provides the first nationally representative portrait of unregistered (informal) Latino‐owned businesses (LOBs) in the United States. Methods We employ data from the 2018 Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Survey of 4,024 U.S. LOBs. We estimate the determinants of unregistered LOBs through a set of independent variables derived from entrepreneur demographics/firm characteristics utilizing a binomial logistic regression to predict the odds of group membership between (un)registered LOBs. Results Approximately one‐third of LOBs across the United States operate as unregistered enterprises. We find that LOB firm registration is associated with higher levels of education of the entrepreneur and larger size of the LOB. We uncover further links between entrepreneur acculturation and gender, and firm product offering and clientele ethnicity, with firm registration. Conclusion For the first time, we are able to establish a quantitative baseline for informality and firm registration among LOBs using a nationally representative sample.