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 … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … times greater than other immigrant groups, and Gujarati-speaking Indians are similarly 108 times more concentrated in … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model's underlying mechanisms. …

immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage …

establishment entry and exit drive immigrant-induced job creation and a rightward shift of the productivity distribution in U … general equilibrium model proposes a mechanism that ties immigrant workers to high-productivity firms and shows how accounting … for changes to the employer distribution can yield substantially larger estimates of immigrant-generated economic surplus …

substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage gap between them. Using a simple production function framework, we show … that this labor market competition channel can explain about one quarter of the large increase in the average immigrant …