TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Duleep, Harriet
AU  - Jaeger, David A.
AU  - McHenry, Peter
        TI  - On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship
        PY  - 2021/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14188
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14188
        AB  - We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capital is not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs of investing in new skills or methods and will be more exible in their human capital investments than observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation, even among natives. We provide empirical evidence from the United States that is consistent with the theory's predictions.
        KW  - immigration
KW  - innovation
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - human capital
        ER  -