This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the … over time. However, when immigrants have accumulated more years of residence in Germany, the likelihood is increasing again …

worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into selfemployment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally … pushed into selfemployment when they feel discriminated. Married immigrants are more likely to go into selfemployment, but … less likely when they have young children. Immigrants living with foreign passports in ethnic households are more likely …

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … show that returns to human capital are considerably lower for immigrants as compared to natives and that there is no return … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression …

, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …

immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 …

language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives … (the three E’s) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …

children, they choose self-employment as a way to circumvent unemployment. Women who are more educated and do not have under …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …