countries have established special visas and entry requirements to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Research supports some of … successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

Using nationally representative data from the United States, the author estimates the causal impact of immigrant … entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial propensities of natives. The author draws data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of … the Current Population Survey and uses within-state variation in supply of immigrant entrepreneurs for identification. To …

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …, we document that immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas of the USA. Our main measure is the … percentage of immigrant workers in an area who are self-employed; i.e., the self- employment rate for the foreign-born. Areas …