The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States

Randall Akee (), David A. Jaeger () and Konstantinos Tatsiramos ()

No 717, CReAM Discussion Paper Series from Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London

Abstract: 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 selfemployment has a significant effect on U.S. wages in either paid employment or self employment.

Keywords: Self-employment; entrepreneurship; New Immigrant Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-12
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Journal Article: The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States (2013)
Working Paper: The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States (2007)
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