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 …

Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self …-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many … upward economic mobility among low-skilled immigrants. More broadly prioritizing high-skilled immigrants may prove to be more …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …

different generations of European immigrants to the US. The main result is that persistence differs greatly across cultural …, the results obtained studying higher generation immigrants differ greatly from those obtained limiting the analysis to the … second generation, and imply lesser degree of persistence. Finally, we show that persistence is ”culture specific” in the …

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …

This paper examines differences in religious behaviors of the native born and immigrants in Europe, measured as self … average, religiosity of immigrants is higher than that of the native born, even among those without a religious affiliation …, income, marital status, and notably denominations, partly account for the overall differences. Religiosity of immigrants …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …