Résumé
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 self-employment status in the U.S.. increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent relative to an unconditional self-employment probability of about 10 percent. This effect is statistically significant and quantitatively important, being equivalent to at least 7 years of U.S.-based education. Our results improve on the previous literature by measuring home-country self-employment directly rather than relying on proxy measures.
langue originale | Anglais |
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Pages (de - à) | 126-137 |
Nombre de pages | 12 |
journal | Economics Bulletin |
Volume | 33 |
Numéro de publication | 1 |
état | Publié - 2013 |
Modification externe | Oui |