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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However … other areas of the USA. This relationship holds for numerous sub-samples of immigrants and is not driven by any particular …
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We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises the self-employed household s expected return to...
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effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … adult male immigrants from non-English speaking countries. Linguistic concentrations reduce the immigrant?s own English … language skills. Moreover, immigrant?s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the …
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