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 …

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

immigrant population in the country. This is an interesting yet puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnated growth of …

, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other things, and provides an excellent opportunity to examine immigrant …-native differences in welfare use. The empirical results suggest that the main reason for the large immigrant-native welfare gap observed … successful in reducing welfare use in general and the immigrant-native welfare gap in particular. -- welfare ; immigration …

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 … business. We also find that most of the 20 percent male native-immigrant earnings gap among low-skilled business owners can be …

-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled native-born and legal immigrant …

Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains …