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 …

cells are based on education/experience, our results suggest a negative relationship between native wages and immigrant …

. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group among the EU8 immigrants: since enlargement, 63% of all immigrants and 71% of … EU8 immigrants are from Poland. This chapter presents new evidence on the impact of immigrant flow from EU8 countries on … young, and they are less educated compared to previous immigrant groups. We also find that recent EU8 immigrants are more …

in science and engineering. These data imply that a one percentage point rise in the share of immigrant college graduates … in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …-18% in response to a one percentage point increase in immigrant college graduates. We isolate the causal effect by …

immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and … of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …

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 …