fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the … shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …

into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … several restricted-access U.S. Census Bureau data sets to create a unique longitudinal data platform that covers 1992-2008 and …

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census … data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United …

data. Weak evidence is found for the proposition that the rate of entrepreneurship is related to the degree of income …We find evidence in the OECD cross-country data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks … shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and …

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self …