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 …

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 examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant …'s behavior in the United States. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of assimilation of immigrants. …

One of the leading theories of entrepreneurship is that less risk averse individuals become entrepreneurs and more risk …

We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …