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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship : Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2015

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship …

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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Should the U.S. Continue its Family-Friendly Immigration Policy?

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014

An ongoing debate is whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admission system, which favors visas for family members of U.S. citizens and residents, or adopt a more skills-based system, replacing family visas with employment-based visas. In many ways this is a false dichotomy:...

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The Economic Status of Asian Americans Before and After the Civil Rights Act

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

In contrast to their relative standing in today's labor market, in 1960 U.S.-born men in all Asian groups earned substantially less than comparable whites. We explore explanations for the wage gap and find that all of the variables that might plausibly account for it, such as Asian/white...

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The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men in the 1960's

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

This paper uses Social Security longitudinal earnings records matched to Current Population Survey data to examine changes in the relative earnings of Hispanic men during a period of dramatic change in public and private policies toward race and ethnicity characterized by, but not limited to,...

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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...

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