immigration on business dynamics and employment by combining U.S. data on immigrant inflows from the Current Population Survey …Immigration, like any positive labor supply shock, should increase the return to capital and spur business investment … immigrant inflows. Despite this clear prediction, there is sparse empirical evidence on the effect of immigration on business …

Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …

employment history of the workforce of new and disappearing administrative firm identifiers, we can accurately identify <I … of new firms entering the Belgian economy between 2004 and 2011, we find highly regular post-entry employment dynamics in … employment growth that is monotonically decreasing with age in every size class. Most remarkably, we find that Gibrat's law is …

Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment … these stances, but expectations may be too high. There is no strong evidence that self-employment is an effective tool of …

migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We discuss points of strain in the current system and potential policy … well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled …

observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …