-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 …

-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high …-skilled natives are more likely to be self-employed than high-skilled immigrants. Models of the self-employment decision, controlling …. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants …

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …-employment by immigrants. However, few studies have been able to quantify the importance of these different aspects that determine … other groups that capture a larger part of the variation might be more efficient. -- Immigrants ; self …

Immigrants experience substantial disadvantages in employment in the host country. "Ethnic capital" (e.g. the ethnic … network) is argued to provide a niche for immigrants. Previous international studies adopt either ethnic concentration or … language as proxy for immigrants' network in host country. In this paper we introduce a new "spatial autoregressive network …

average income from self-employment compared to the average wage income. This is the case when we study incomes for immigrants … in Western Europe. The immigrants are overrepresented among the selfemployed, self-employed immigrants are in other … will mainly compare the annual incomes of the selfemployed immigrants and their native counterparts. The measurement error …