On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship

Harriet Duleep (), David Jaeger and Peter McHenry ()
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Harriet Duleep: College of William and Mary

No 14188, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capital is not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs of investing in new skills or methods and will be more exible in their human capital investments than observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation, even among natives. We provide empirical evidence from the United States that is consistent with the theory's predictions.

Keywords: immigration; innovation; entrepreneurship; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 J39 J61 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2021-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent, nep-ino, nep-int, nep-lab, nep-mig, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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Working Paper: On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship (2021)
Working Paper: On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship (2021)
Working Paper: On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship (2021)
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