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 …

.S.-born descendants. We also find that these two immigrant groups tend to enter entrepreneurship from unemployment or inactivity and they …Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self …-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to …

characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as … well as for recent start-ups and for every level of the entrepreneur's education. The size of the estimated immigrant …

beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship … impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are …

While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated … impact of migration on entrepreneurship among individuals with no migration experience. We explore the self …

that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What …