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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....

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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...

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Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities

Card, David - 2009

Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing potential externalities on natives. While previous...

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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?

Card, David - 2005

This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major...

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Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation

Bayard, Kimberly - 1999

-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …

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Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore co-ethnic hiring among new ventures using U.S. administrative data. Co-ethnic hiring is ubiquitous among immigrant groups, averaging about 22.5% and ranging from <2% to >40%. Co-ethnic hiring grows with the size of the local ethnic workforce, greater linguistic distance to English, lower...</2%>

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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill

Hellerstein, Judith - 2005

with other skilled workers than with unskilled workers--and by race and ethnicity, using simulation methods to measure … education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as skill is often … correlated with race and ethnicity. Finally, we attempt to distinguish between segregation by skill based on general crowding of …

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R. - 2015

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … interactions where non-work relationships facilitate the acquisition of sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies …

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Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from oDesk and India

Ghani, Ejaz - 2012

This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the … diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are …

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