Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Stephane Mahuteau (), Matloob Piracha, Max Tani and Matias Vaira-Lucero

No 6238, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who entered under more stringent conditions – the second cohort – have a higher probability to become self-employed, than those in the first cohort. We also find significant time and region effects. Contrary to some existing evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to become self-employed. We discuss the intuitions for the results and their policy implications.

Keywords: migration; immigration policy; entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C34 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2011-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent and nep-mig
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published - published in: International Migration, 2014, 52(2), 53 - 65

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp6238.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp6238

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().