We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not …

self-employment to 23%. This same time period also witnessed declines in "hometown" local entrepreneurship and the …

During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau …-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that allowed home equity lending for the rst time in the state, we isolate that entrepreneurship …