Kekoa Quinones Akee, R.;
Jaeger, D.A.;
Tatsiramos, K.;
(2007)
The persistence of self-employment across borders: new evidence on legal immigrants to the United States.
(Discussion Paper Series
17/07).
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration: London, UK.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | The persistence of self-employment across borders: new evidence on legal immigrants to the United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.econ.ucl.ac.uk/cream/publicationsdiscus... |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | J61, J21 |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14252 |
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