This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We … born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities …

This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We … born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities … have an informational advantage over immigrants from developing countries. -- Self-employment ; immigrant ; home country …

This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We … born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities …

Using nationally representative data from the United States, the author estimates the causal impact of immigrant … entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial propensities of natives. The author draws data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of … the Current Population Survey and uses within-state variation in supply of immigrant entrepreneurs for identification. To …

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …, we document that immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas of the USA. Our main measure is the … percentage of immigrant workers in an area who are self-employed; i.e., the self- employment rate for the foreign-born. Areas …

-employment rates between immigrant groups within the same market. This approach allows holding constant the institutional environment … institutions. We also find, however, a significant influence of home-country institutions on differences in immigrant activities …

immigrant groups within the same market. Such an approach allows holding constant factors such as the institutional and economic … activity. -- culture ; entrepreneurship ; migration ; self-employment …

with increased skilled migration from India. Policies restricting immigrant entrepreneurship relax competition for native … entrepreneurship. The model is calibrated using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. Quantitative analysis shows that low … endogenous expansion of immigrant entrepreneurial activities, generating positive spillovers for all demographic groups except …