explicitly considering the self-employment rates of the natives, which may influence locally the decisions of immigrants towards … autoregressive model which takes into account the average self-employment rates of immigrants living in nearby municipalities. Our …

the decisions of immigrants towards entrepreneurship, the authors develop a simple model that explains immigrant self …-employment rates of immigrants living in nearby municipalities. Findings – The evidence shows a significant (positive) effect of such … immigrant community and geography is crucial in a country with a relevant share of the working population made up by immigrants.  …

-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Variables for the proportion of immigrants in … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed …. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially those from Asian countries, may displace black-owned business owners. We …