Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …

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 … many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially formed by immigrants and their medium-term growth …

Can culture explain persistent differences in economic activity among individuals and across regions? A novel measure … differences persist over generations and independent of the predominant culture at the current location. Yet, founders' ancestry …

We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish … behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting patterns within Sweden’s largest commuting zone. We find that newly … arrived immigrants file fewer deductions than natives, that immigrants with a longer duration of stay in the host country …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source countries, we illustrate the important role of distance, both … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …