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Fall 2021

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 36, Number 3

Categories: Fall 2021 | Entrepreneurship | Immigration

Immigration and Baumolian Entrepreneurship in the United States

Travis Wiseman, Mississippi State University

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TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise36(3),2021,1–26ImmigrationandBaumolianEntrepreneurshipintheUnitedStatesJoshuaK.BediGeorgeMasonUniversityTravisWisemanMississippiStateUniversity______________________________________________________AbstractWeinvestigateimmigrationandentrepreneurship—productiveandunproductive—intheUnitedStates.Previousstudiesofthisrelationshipfocusonspecificimmigrantpopulationsandsingle-variabledefinitionsofentrepreneurship.Wefocusonallmigrants,examiningauthorizedandunauthorizedpopulations.Additionally,weexploremultiplemeasuresofentrepreneurship,capturingwealth-generatingandredistributivebehavior.Formostmeasuresofproductiveentrepreneurship,ourresultsshowpositiveandstatisticallysignificantcorrelationswithauthorizedimmigration.Investigatingunproductiveentrepreneurshipyieldsstatisticallysignificantresults,butthesignsofourcoefficientsdependontheproxyused.Thisallsuggeststhattheinstitutionalenvironmenttowhichmigrantsmoverewardsproductiveentrepreneurshipbuthasamixedeffecttowardunproductiveentrepreneurship.______________________________________________________JELCodes:J60,J61Keywords:migrantworkers,entrepreneurship,unauthorizedimmigrationI.IntroductionIsimmigrationassociatedwithentrepreneurship?Recentstudiesofimmigrationandentrepreneurshipprovidevariedresults.Forexample,HuntandGauthier-Loiselle(2010)findapositive,statisticallysignificantrelationshipbetweentheshareofthepopulationcomposedofimmigrantcollegegraduatesandpatentspercapita.Ozgen,Nijkamp,andPoot(2010)findthatadiversecompositionofimmigrantsisamoreimportantdeterminantofinnovation(measuredbypatentspercapita)thantheproportionofthepopulationthatiscomposedofimmigrants.Incontrast,Maré,Fabling,andStillman(2011)findnoevidenceofarelationship

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Title	Immigration and Baumolian Entrepreneurship in the United States
Authors/Creators:	Travis Wiseman, Mississippi State University
Year:	2021
Volume:	36
Number:	3
Pages:	1 - 26
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	migrant workers, entrepreneurship, unauthorized immigration

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; Wiseman, Travis / 2021. "Immigration and Baumolian Entrepreneurship in the United States." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 36(3): 1-26.