Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …

economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal … created include both employer and non-employer firms and are relatively low on assets. In panel data specifications, the …

administrative firm-level panel data covering the universe of businesses filing sales taxes from the California Department of Tax and …

substantial differences in future economic outcomes. Using Census Bureau data, we characterize the different career profiles of …

self-employment to 23%. This same time period also witnessed declines in "hometown" local entrepreneurship and the … probability of the self-employed being among top earners. Using 2016 data, we show that high startup capital requirements are …

taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western … behavioral features driving our choice data. We find that these features distort choices when exchanging cash either for time or …

-employment sector. When estimated to match cross-country data, the model predicts that sectoral reallocation explains more than half of …

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and … administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self … employees in conventional household survey data and those who are independent contractors in a secondary work activity. We find …