Immigration and Entrepreneurship

58 Pages Posted: 24 Apr 2015

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Robert W. Fairlie

UCLA; National Bureau of Economic Research

Magnus Lofstrom

Public Policy Institute of California; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

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Date Written: April 23, 2015

Abstract

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.

Keywords: entrepreneurship, self-employment, innovation, immigrants, immigration

JEL Classification: J150 J180, J310, J380, J610, L260, M130

Suggested Citation

Fairlie, Robert W. and Lofstrom, Magnus, Immigration and Entrepreneurship (April 23, 2015). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5298, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2597992 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2597992

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