immigrants in the U.S. We find that those married to a native are less likely to start up a business compared to those married to … show that immigrants married to a native are significantly less likely to exit from entrepreneurship compared to their …

's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants … income/productivity levels in the immigrants home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a … across various OLS and 2SLS specifications and suggestive of skill complementarities between native workers and immigrants …

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The … developed and developing countries, the economic development of the latter will increasingly depend on migrants' ability to …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be … self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from developing countries. This result is unexpected given previous research … which suggests that immigrants from countries with high levels of self-employment tend to be more involved in self …

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities … likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants … education and field of study, but this is not the case for publishing, and immigrants are more likely to start companies than …

Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration … Mexican self-employment. The impact mainly concentrates among likely undocumented immigrants. It is mainly driven by police …

composition of the employees and ask if self-employed immigrants mainly employ workers from their home region and if self …-employed natives mainly employ native workers. We find that both natives and immigrants are more likely to employ co-nationals than to …-nationals. For immigrants we find that living in a municipality with a high share of co-nationals decreases the probability of …

-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to … survival probability in entrepreneurship for Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants, which does not carry on to their U …