-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 …

-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 …

immigrants in the U.S. We find that those married to a native are less likely to start up a business compared to those married to … show that immigrants married to a native are significantly less likely to exit from entrepreneurship compared to their …

. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially those from Asian countries, may displace black-owned business owners. We … higher share of immigrants. We define labor markets as metropolitan areas (MAs) and use the variation across 94 MAs in the U … by the propensity of immigrant groups to be self-employed, if we limit our sample of immigrants to those from only Asian …

worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into self-employment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally … pushed into self-employment when they feel discriminated. Married immigrants are more likely to go into self-employment, but … less likely when they have young children. Immigrants living with foreign passports in ethnic households are more likely …

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 self-employed, self-employed immigrants are in other … will mainly compare the annual incomes of the self-employed immigrants and their native counterparts. The measurement error …

are overrepresented among those with those types of jobs, young people, women, immigrants, ethnic minorities, and older …