Arbeitspapier
Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two groups decreased in the 1980?s. Given the high self-employment rates of this group of workers, about 20 percent, it is important to study this aspect of the labor market experience. High-skilled natives are more likely to be self-employed than high-skilled immigrants. Models of the self-employment decision, controlling for differences in socioeconomic background, occupation, regional differences in immigrant population proportions, national origin and ethnicity, are estimated. Evidence of positive enclave effects on selfemployment probabilities is found. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants and natives, as well as compared to self-employed natives. Furthermore, there appears to be very little difference in predicted earnings across national origin group of self-employed immigrants. The low variation in predicted earnings across country of origin groups is not found for wage/salary immigrants.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 175
Labor Demand
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
assimilation
self-employment
high-skill
Migranten
Ausländische Arbeitskräfte
Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte
Selbstständige
Einkommen
Soziale Integration
Schätzung
USA
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Lofstrom, Magnus
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2000
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