Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Robert Fairlie, Harry Krashinsky, Julie Zissimopoulos and Krishna Kumar

No WR-727, Working Papers from RAND Corporation

Abstract: Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using census data from the three largest developed countries in the world receiving Indian immigrants — the United States, United Kingdom and Canada — the authors examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and the causes of their success. In the United States, Indian entrepreneurs have average business income that is substantially higher than the national average and is higher than any other immigrant group. High levels of education among Indian immigrants in the United States are responsible for nearly half of the higher level of entrepreneurial earnings while industry differences explain an additional 10 percent. In Canada, Indian entrepreneurs have average earnings slightly below the national average but they are more likely to hire employees, as are their counterparts in the United States and United Kingdom. The Indian educational advantage is smaller in Canada and the United Kingdom contributing less to their entrepreneurial success.

JEL-codes: J15 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2010-01
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/2010/RAND_WR727.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
Working Paper: Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom (2013)
Chapter: Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom (2012)
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:ran:wpaper:wr-727

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from RAND Corporation Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Benson Wong ().