Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self …-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to … the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we find a lower …

Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an …-employment has a significant effect on U.S. wages in either paid employment or self employment. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male … show that immigrants married to a native are significantly less likely to exit from entrepreneurship compared to their … to become an entrepreneur and for survival in entrepreneurship, which is consistent with a network effect. On the one …