TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Akee, Randall K. Q.
AU  - Jaeger, David A.
AU  - Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
        TI  - The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
        PY  - 2007/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3250
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3250
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - New Immigrant Survey
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - self-employment
        ER  -