economy – and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging ‘wider impacts' literature …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and … evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and cross …

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a …

Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing … selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette …-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in …

In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision …