Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …-employment by immigrants. However, few studies have been able to quantify the importance of these different aspects that determine …

business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a …

worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into selfemployment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally … pushed into selfemployment when they feel discriminated. Married immigrants are more likely to go into selfemployment, but … less likely when they have young children. Immigrants living with foreign passports in ethnic households are more likely …

composition of the employees and ask if self-employed immigrants mainly employ workers from their home region and if self …-employed natives mainly employ native workers. We find that both natives and immigrants are more likely to employ co-nationals than to …-nationals. For immigrants we find that living in a municipality with a high share of co-nationals decreases the probability of …

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants …

the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self … the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … entrepreneurs to immigrants in wage/salary employment as well as native born business owners. We find that the returns to low …

immigrants are proportionally overrepresented in self-employment, vis-à-vis natives of equivalent skill levels. We try to explain … by the employers, which when offered to a mixed cohort of immigrants facilitates self-selection in favor of paid …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the … over time. However, when immigrants have accumulated more years of residence in Germany, the likelihood is increasing again …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex- Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …