TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Green, David A.
AU  - Liu, Huju
AU  - Ostrovsky, Yuri
AU  - Picot, Garnett
        TI  - Are Immigrants Particularly Entrepreneurial? Policy Lessons from a Selective Immigration System
        PY  - 2023/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16515
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16515
        AB  - Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants. Higher immigrant firm ownership rates are mainly due to nonincorporated firm ownership, which looks like a last resort. Human capital plays no role in the opening of preferable, incorporated firms. Immigrants are not more entrepreneurial in terms of opening incorporated firms with employees, and standard policy levers appear to have limited effects.
        KW  - immigration
KW  - entrepreneurs
KW  - human capital
        ER  -