Are Immigrants Particularly Entrepreneurial? Policy Lessons from a Selective Immigration System

David Green, Huju Liu, Yuri Ostrovsky and Garnett Picot ()
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Garnett Picot: Institute for Research on Public Policy, and Research and Evaluation Branch, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

No 16515, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants. Higher immigrant firm ownership rates are mainly due to nonincorporated firm ownership, which looks like a last resort. Human capital plays no role in the opening of preferable, incorporated firms. Immigrants are not more entrepreneurial in terms of opening incorporated firms with employees, and standard policy levers appear to have limited effects.

Keywords: immigration; entrepreneurs; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2023-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-ent, nep-int, nep-lab, nep-mig, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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