This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We … born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities … have an informational advantage over immigrants from developing countries. -- Self-employment ; immigrant ; home country …

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 …

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 …

Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an … immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the …-employment has a significant effect on U.S. wages in either paid employment or self employment. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

for differences in socioeconomic background, occupation, regional differences in immigrant population proportions …

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …-employment ; integration ; entrepreneurship ; multilevel logistic regression …

Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first … 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to … examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants. Higher immigrant firm ownership rates are mainly due to …

permanent residence do not outperform natives for any of the outcomes considered. -- Immigration ; innovation ; entrepreneurship …