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dc.contributor.authorOyelere, Ruth Uwaifoen
dc.contributor.authorBelton, Willieen
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-18-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:55:31Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:55:31Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-2009060893en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35703-
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from developing countries. This result is unexpected given previous research which suggests that immigrants from countries with high levels of self-employment tend to be more involved in self-employment in the U.S. Developing countries on average have higher self-employment rates than do developed countries but our research shows that immigrants from developing countries have similar or lower self-employment probabilities relative to native born White Americans, whereas immigrant from developed countries have significantly higher self-employment probabilities relative to native born White Americans. We provide two potential explanations for this result. First, immigrants from developed countries may indeed have more and better access to start-up capital from their country of origin. Second, institutional arrangements in the developed world may be similar across countries allowing immigrants from developed countries to have an informational advantage over immigrants from developing countries.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4178en
dc.subject.jelJ21en
dc.subject.jelE24en
dc.subject.jelJ61en
dc.subject.jelJ40en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordSelf-employmenten
dc.subject.keywordimmigranten
dc.subject.keywordhome countryen
dc.subject.keywordentrepreneurshipen
dc.subject.stwMigrantenen
dc.subject.stwEinwanderungen
dc.subject.stwSelbstständigeen
dc.subject.stwUnternehmeren
dc.subject.stwSozialer Statusen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleComing to America: does immigrant's home country economic status impact the probability of self-employment in the U.S.?-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn602104181en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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