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 …

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …

This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant …

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid …-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the … entry variables do not play any significant role. This suggests that the Danish immigrant selection system is ineffective. …

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

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

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 …