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 …

Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in … selfemployed individuals and understand their underlying drive into self-employment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …

-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 …