NDLI: Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

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Author	Lofstrom, Magnus
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	More than ½ of the foreign born workforce in the US have no schooling beyond high school and about 20% of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10% of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We find that the returns to low-skilled self-employment among immigrants is higher than it is among natives but also that wage/salary employment is a more financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. In analyses of earnings differences, we find that most of the 20% male native-immigrant earnings gap among low-skilled business owners can be explained primarily by differences in the ethnic composition. Low-skilled female foreign born entrepreneurs are found to have earnings roughly equal to otherwise observationally similar self-employed native born women.
Starting Page	25
Ending Page	44
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15695239
Journal	Review of Economics of the Household
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737152
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-10-05
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Immigrants Low-skill Earnings Self-employment Entrepreneurship Social Sciences Population Economics Labor Economics Microeconomics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences Economics and Econometrics

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