Fairlie, Robert W.; Meyer, Bruce D. - In: Journal of Labor Economics 21 (2003) 3, pp. 619-650
We examine the impact of immigration on self-employed natives. In a new general equilibrium model of self-employment and wage/salary work, a range of plausible parameter values implies small negative effects of immigration on native self-employment rates and earnings. Using 1980 and 1990 Census...