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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …, we document that immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas of the USA. Our main measure is the … percentage of immigrant workers in an area who are self-employed; i.e., the self- employment rate for the foreign-born. Areas …
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for differences in socioeconomic background, occupation, regional differences in immigrant population proportions …
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Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …-employment ; integration ; entrepreneurship ; multilevel logistic regression …
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Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship … migrants and those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, while it is not significant for mixed immigrant-native couples, for highly …
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This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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cells are based on education/experience, our results suggest a negative relationship between native wages and immigrant …
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to document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more … likely to be employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment … advantage. By April 2020, immigrant men had lower employment rates than native men. The reversal occurred both because the rate …
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Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the … the foreign-born workforce since 1976. The raw correlations suggest that the immigrant supply shock did not change the …
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study in which tens of thousands of 'immigrant jobs' were offered to native workers with a range of exogenously varying …
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