This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We … born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities … have an informational advantage over immigrants from developing countries. -- Self-employment ; immigrant ; home country …

This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We … born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities …

immigrant groups within the same market. Such an approach allows holding constant factors such as the institutional and economic … activity. -- culture ; entrepreneurship ; migration ; self-employment …

Using nationally representative data from the United States, the author estimates the causal impact of immigrant … entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial propensities of natives. The author draws data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of … the Current Population Survey and uses within-state variation in supply of immigrant entrepreneurs for identification. To …

immigrant groups within the same market. Such an approach allows holding constant factors such as the institutional and economic …

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …, we document that immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas of the USA. Our main measure is the … percentage of immigrant workers in an area who are self-employed; i.e., the self- employment rate for the foreign-born. Areas …

-employed in the sample reduces the immigrant-native earnings gap by, on average, 14 percent …

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 … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …