employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers. We provide updated statistics on the share of US entrepreneurs who …

. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …

We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …

characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as … well as for recent start-ups and for every level of the entrepreneur's education. The size of the estimated immigrant …