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Table of Contents Findings Why Study Immigrant
Entrepreneurship? Self-Employment over the Last Four Decades Declining
Immigrant Self-Employment Full- and Part-Time Self-Employment Rates Full-Time Self-Employment Full- and Part-Time Self-Employment Income Full-Time Self-Employment
Income Socio-Economic Characteristics Self-Employment
by Age and Education Self-Employment by Geographic Area Self-Employment
by State Self-Employment by Region and Country of Origin Self-Employment
by Region of Origin What Explains the Myth of Immigrant Entrepreneurship? Steven A. Camarota is Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Virginia. Dr. Camarota has testified before Congress and written extensively on the effects of low-skilled immigration on American workers. His most recent works from the Center are Importing Poverty: Immigration's Impact on the Size and Growth of the Poor Population in the United States, Immigrants in the United States — 1998: A Snapshot of America's Foreign-born Population, and The Wages of Immigration: The Effect on the Low-Skilled Labor Market. About the Center The Center for Immigration Studies, founded in 1985, is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization in Washington, D.C., which examines and critiques the impact of immigration on the United States. It provides a variety of services for policymakers, journalists, and academics, including an e-mail news service, a monthly Backgrounder series and other publications, congressional testimony, and public briefings. |