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 …

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 …

a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and entrepreneurship out of necessity falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …

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 … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …

in the United States account for roughly half of the Mexican immigrant/U.S. total difference in self-employment rates for … immigrant self-employment rates may be higher for those who reside in the United States legally and are fluent in English, and …