Self-Employment of Immigrants: A Cross-National Study of 17 Western Societies

By Frank van Tubergen. 2005

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This study examines the role of immigrants' country of origin, country of destination and combinations thereof (settings or communities) in the likelihood of immigrants being self-employed. I pooled census data from three classic immigrant countries (Australia, Canada and the United States) and labor-force surveys from 14 countries in the European Union for a cross-national data set. Using multilevel techniques, I find that (1) immigrants from non-Christian countries of origin have higher odds of self-employment, (2) higher levels of unemployment among natives increase the odds of self-employment, and (3) self-employment is more frequent among immigrant communities that are small, highly educated and have a longer settlement history.

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• Self-employment and intention of permanent urban settlement: Evidence from a survey of migrants in China’s four major urbanising areas (2015, background): “Some scholars view self-employment as part of a less productive informal sector that serves as a coping mechanism for uneducated, unskilled workers and/or those who cannot obtain formal employment (Gong and Van Soest, 2002; Tokman, 1992).”