Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295297 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 17/07
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our results improve on the previous literature by measuring home-country self-employment directly rather than relying on proxy measures. We find little evidence to suggest that home-country selfemployment has a significant effect on U.S. wages in either paid employment or self employment.
Subjects: 
Self-employment
entrepreneurship
New Immigrant Survey
JEL: 
J61
J21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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