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Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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 …

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The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons : Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs

Bahar, Dany; Cowgill, Bo; Guzman, Jorge - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal … business registry, we study a 2018 policy shift in Colombia that made nearly half a million Venezuelan undocumented migrants …

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Native-Immigrant Entrepreneurial Synergies

Zhao, Jin; Kermani, Amir; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine the performance of startups co-founded by immigrant and native teams. Leveraging unique data linking startups to founders' and employees' employment and education histories, we find native-migrant teams outperform native-only and migrant-only teams. Native-migrant startups have larger...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States

Azoulay, Pierre - 2020

of immigrants in entrepreneurship. We ask how often immigrants start companies, how many jobs these firms create, and how …" than "job takers" and that non-U.S. born founders play outsized roles in U.S. high-growth entrepreneurship …

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R. - 2015

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United …-isolated groups achieving considerable economic success via concentrated entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States …

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Are Foreign Stem PhDs More Entrepreneurial? Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Preferences and Employment Outcomes of Native and Foreign Science & Engineering PhD Students

Roach, Michael - 2019

characteristics typically associated with entrepreneurship such as risk tolerance, a preference for autonomy, and interest in …

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Immigration Policy Levers for US Innovation and Startups

Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not … migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We discuss points of strain in the current system and potential policy …

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship : Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Kerr, William R. - 2013

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … entrepreneurship, except that it is rapidly growing in importance …

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The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1986

Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...

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