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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014
Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self … successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420344
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516448
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486484
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073864
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023916
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Supply of immigrant entrepreneurs and native entrepreneurship
Ghimire, Keshar M. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-42
entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial propensities of natives. The author draws data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of … entrepreneurs on native entrepreneurship. Moreover, there is no net effect on subgroups of natives separated by skill level. There …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518152
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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States
Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021
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, we document that immigrant self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793327
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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238448
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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239493
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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups
Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not … migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We discuss points of strain in the current system and potential policy … reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241073