This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential … effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead them to economic success. We employ recent data from the German …

) functions are estimated for each race/ethnic/gender/nativity group in each state and Census year. Wages are then predicted for … immigrants, which ranged from 1% to +6%. Both groups' relative wages grew faster in California than in Texas, and men's grew …

The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to analyze startups by foreigners in Germany. The …Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels für Deutschland (SOEP), inwieweit … selbständige Ausländer in Deutschland überdurchschnittlich hohe Einkommen erzielen. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass ausländische …