The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders:New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States

Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous selfemploymentexperience in an immigrant´s country of origin is an important determinant oftheir self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed byabout 7 percent...

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Year of publication:	2007-12-01
Authors:	Akee, Randall K. Q. ; Jaeger, David A. ; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Migrant <Einwanderer> \| Selbständige Arbeit \| Geschäftsführung

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Extent:	208896 bytes 25 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers Discussion Paper ; No. 3250 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Ergonomic job analysis ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; USA
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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