Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all … employment or the outside option of self-employment/entrepreneurship. We also discuss countervailing incentives among the mixed …

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

a positive relationship between an individual’s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and "entrepreneurship out of necessity" falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …

beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. -- immigration … impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are …

find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages …

substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage gap between them. Using a simple production function framework, we show … that this labor market competition channel can explain about one quarter of the large increase in the average immigrant …