caa a22 4500 445864001 CHVBK 20180317145452.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11150-010-9106-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11150-010-9106-1 Lofstrom Magnus Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and IZA, 500 Washington Street, Suite 600, 94111, San Francisco, CA, USA aut Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship [Elektronische Daten] [Magnus Lofstrom] More than ½ of the foreign born workforce in the US have no schooling beyond high school and about 20% of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10% of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We find that the returns to low-skilled self-employment among immigrants is higher than it is among natives but also that wage/salary employment is a more financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. In analyses of earnings differences, we find that most of the 20% male native-immigrant earnings gap among low-skilled business owners can be explained primarily by differences in the ethnic composition. Low-skilled female foreign born entrepreneurs are found to have earnings roughly equal to otherwise observationally similar self-employed native born women. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Immigrants nationallicence Low-skill nationallicence Earnings nationallicence Self-employment nationallicence Entrepreneurship nationallicence Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/1(2011-03-01), 25-44 1569-5239 9:1<25 2011 9 11150 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-010-9106-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-010-9106-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lofstrom Magnus Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and IZA, 500 Washington Street, Suite 600, 94111, San Francisco, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/1(2011-03-01), 25-44 1569-5239 9:1<25 2011 9 11150 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer