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

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 …

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

sample is unique in that 95 percent of our observed immigrant flows equal zero. We accommodate for the zeros by using scaled …

their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving … also presented to test whether the findings are sensitive to immigrant cohort quality effects. Even after controlling for …