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 …

entrepreneurship, we develop a simple model that explains immigrant self-employment rates for a sample of 2,490 Swiss municipalities … and immigrant pool characteristics differ, with respect to self-employment choices, when examining separately urban and …

Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in …-employed individuals and understand their underlying drive into selfemployment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant entrepreneurs … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …

propensity of immigrant groups to be self-employed or if we limit our sample of immigrants to those from only Asian countries …

for differences in socioeconomic background, occupation, regional differences in immigrant population proportions …

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …-employment ; integration ; entrepreneurship ; multilevel logistic regression …