immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … Treiman prestige scale scores increase their earnings, for self-employed immigrant men it is the longevity of the business … that makes a difference. Everything else equal, the earnings of self-employed Turks are no different than the earnings of …

the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … growth than immigrants in wage/salary employment and are predicted to reach earnings parity after approximately 10 years in …

-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …

. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants … predicted earnings across national origin group of self-employed immigrants. The low variation in predicted earnings across …

migration and contribute to a better economic performance of the respective countries. …

worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into selfemployment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally … self-employed than native Germans. The earnings of self-employed men increase with exposure to Germany, hours worked and … occupational prestige; they decrease with high regional unemployment to vacancies ratios. Everything else equal, the earnings of …