Akee, Randall K.Q; Jaeger, David A; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 126-137
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 self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent relative to an...