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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3250

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Thema
Self-employment
entrepreneurship
New Immigrant Survey
Selbstständige
Unternehmer
Migranten
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Akee, Randall K. Q.
Jaeger, David A.
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2007

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Akee, Randall K. Q.
  • Jaeger, David A.
  • Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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