We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not …