Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Robert Fairlie and Magnus Lofstrom

No 7669, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has developed over the years. In this chapter we provide an overview of the economics literature with respect to some of the most fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in entrepreneurial success.

Keywords: immigrants; entrepreneurship; self-employment; innovation; immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J18 J31 J38 J61 L26 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2013-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-cwa, nep-ent and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1B, Elsevier, 2015

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