differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ …

quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants' schooling per se, that is the major driver …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

educational attainment of adults by immigrant generation. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, differences in educational … attainment are analyzed by immigrant generation (first, second, and higher order generations), and among the foreign born by … attainment, with the gap narrowing for higher order immigrant generations among Hispanics, but rising among blacks. …

start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage work …. The paper shows that these facts can be explained in a model of occupational choice between wage work and entrepreneurship …

The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti …

this analysis must be inferred based on the year of migration to the US. Using an immigrant-specific data set, the New … Immigrant Survey which contains explicit information on the human capital acquired in the US and abroad, we confirm these …