TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kerr, Sari Pekkala
AU  - Kerr, William R
TI  - Immigrant Entrepreneurship
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 22385
PY  - 2016
Y2  - July 2016
DO  - 10.3386/w22385
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w22385
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w22385.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sari Pekkala Kerr
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
E-Mail: skerr3@wellesley.edu

William R. Kerr
Harvard Business School
Rock Center 212
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
Tel: 617/496-7021
E-Mail: wkerr@hbs.edu
M1  - published as Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship," in John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar, editors, "Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges" University of Chicago Press (2017)

M3  - presented at "CRIW: Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses", December 16-17, 2014
AB  - We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine several restricted-access U.S. Census Bureau data sets to create a unique longitudinal data platform that covers 1992-2008 and many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially formed by immigrants and their medium-term growth patterns. We also consider the relationship of these outcomes to the immigrants' age at arrival to the United States.
ER  -