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 …

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

How does consumer credit access impact job flows, earnings, and entrepreneurship? To answer this question, we build a … results suggest that consumer credit access matters for each stage of entrepreneurship and that credit-checks may be limiting …

in science and engineering. These data imply that a one percentage point rise in the share of immigrant college graduates … in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …-overs, resulting in an increase in patents per capita of about 15% in response to a one percentage point increase in immigrant college …