Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282642 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16515
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants. Higher immigrant firm ownership rates are mainly due to nonincorporated firm ownership, which looks like a last resort. Human capital plays no role in the opening of preferable, incorporated firms. Immigrants are not more entrepreneurial in terms of opening incorporated firms with employees, and standard policy levers appear to have limited effects.
Subjects: 
immigration
entrepreneurs
human capital
JEL: 
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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