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 …

Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an … immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the …

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …

This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant …

Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first … 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to … examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants. Higher immigrant firm ownership rates are mainly due to …

that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group'? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals' utility levels …