Arbeitspapier
The persistence of self-employment across borders: new evidence on legal immigrants to the United States
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our results improve on the previous literature by measuring home-country self-employment directly rather than relying on proxy measures. We find little evidence to suggest that home-country self-employment has a significant effect on U.S. wages in either paid employment or self employment.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3250
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- Subject
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Self-employment
entrepreneurship
New Immigrant Survey
Selbstständige
Unternehmer
Migranten
USA
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Akee, Randall K. Q.
Jaeger, David A.
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Akee, Randall K. Q.
- Jaeger, David A.
- Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2007
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