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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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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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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree completion and labor market outcomes for native-born Americans. The Act increased the in-flow and stock of foreign STEM workers in the U.S., both by increasing green...
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