This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We … born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities …

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. …

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 …