Immigration and Entrepreneurship

By R. Fairlie, Magnus Lofstrom. Social Science Research Network, 2015

179 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has developed over the years. In this chapter we provide an overview of the economics literature with respect to some of the most fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in entrepreneurial success.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4446196b3ac6ad732082bac22b8f132c95952ff0

Citations in the corpus

• Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012 (2020, unknown): “Fairlie and Lofstrom (2013) use the 2007–2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) and confirm, among other things, that immigrant entrepreneurship is pervasive across ethnic groups.”
• High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration (2017, unknown): “Broader studies for the United States tend to find evidence for immigrants being more entrepreneurial (e.g., Hunt 2011, Fairlie and Lofstrom 2014, Kerr and Kerr 2016).”