%0 Generic
%A Kekoa Quinones Akee, R.
%A Jaeger, D.A.
%A Tatsiramos, K.
%C London, UK
%D 2007
%F discovery:14252
%I Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration
%K J61, J21
%N 17/07
%T The persistence of self-employment across borders: new evidence on legal immigrants to the United States
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14252/
%X 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 self employment has a significant effect on U.S. wages in either paid employment or self employment.