%0 Report
        %A Akee, Randall K. Q.
%A Jaeger, David A.
%A Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
        %T The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3250
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3250
        %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.
        %K New Immigrant Survey
%K entrepreneurship
%K self-employment