. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially those from Asian countries, may displace black-owned business owners. We … higher share of immigrants. We define labor markets as metropolitan areas (MAs) and use the variation across 94 MAs in the U … by the propensity of immigrant groups to be self-employed, if we limit our sample of immigrants to those from only Asian …

's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants … income/productivity levels in the immigrants' home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a … across various OLS and 2SLS specifications and suggestive of skill complementarities between native workers and immigrants …

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities … likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants …, patenting, commercializing or licensing patents, and publishing. In general, this advantage is explained by immigrants' higher …

immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self …-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment rates of immigrants compare to those of native-born men? Second, is there … an "assimilation" effect on the self-employment propensity of immigrants? Finally, are the more recent waves of …

self-employment rates of immigrants carry into the next generation, but not beyond that. 6) Male immigrants who have self …-employed fathers re no more likely to be self-employed than other immigrants …

of immigrants on the U.S. labor market in a difference-in-differences model that compares home-educated to U ….S.-educated immigrants from the same country of origin. Third, countries that improved their cognitive skills over time experienced relative …

Immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before the Civil War were less likely to reside in locations with high immigrant … concentrations as their time in the U.S. increased. This is contrary to the experience of recent immigrants who show no decrease in … concentration after arrival. The reduced isolation of antebellum immigrants was not due to their own movement to places with fewer …