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Are Immigrants Particularly Entrepreneurial? Policy Lessons from a Selective Immigration System
Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants. Higher immigrant firm ownership rates are mainly due to nonincorporated firm ownership, which looks like a last resort. Human capital plays no role in the opening of preferable, incorporated firms. Immigrants are not more entrepreneurial in terms of opening incorporated firms with employees, and standard policy levers appear to have limited effects.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16515
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Wirtschaft
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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immigration
entrepreneurs
human capital
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Green, David A.
Liu, Huju
Ostrovsky, Yuri
Picot, Garnett
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Green, David A.
- Liu, Huju
- Ostrovsky, Yuri
- Picot, Garnett
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2023
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