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Spring 2022

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 37, Number 1

Categories: Spring 2022 | Immigration | Entrepreneurship

To Assimilate or Not to Assimilate? A Cross-country Study on Assimilating Entrepreneurial Tendencies

Shaomeng Jia, Alabama State University

Joshua K. Bedi, Copenhagen Business School

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TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise37(1),2022,1-31ToAssimilateorNottoAssimilate?ACross-countryStudyonAssimilatingEntrepreneurialTendenciesShaomengJiaAlabamaStateUniversityJoshuaK.Bedi*CopenhagenBusinessSchoolAbstractWestudywhetherimmigrantsaremoreentrepreneurialthannatives.Moreimportantly,weanalyzethemotivationsbehindself-employmentandhowthesemotivationsexplaindifferencesinentrepreneurialtendenciesbetweennatives,first-generationimmigrants,andsecond-generationimmigrants.Wefindimmigrantstobegenerallymoreentrepreneurial,intermsofselfemployment,thannatives,andwefindthedifferencetobelargelydrivenbynecessitymotivation,ortheinabilitytofindjobselsewhere.Wealsofindevidenceofcross-generationalassimilationamongimmigrantsintermsofentrepreneurialtendencies.Finally,necessity-motivatedentrepreneurswhodeveloptheirbusinesstotheestablishedstagearemuchmorelikelytobesecond-generationimmigrantsthannativesorfirst-generationimmigrants.JELCodes:J61,L26,J62Keywords:immigration,entrepreneurship,self-employmentI.IntroductionIsimmigrationassociatedwithentrepreneurshipinhostcountries?Whiletheeffectsofimmigrationonhost-countryentrepreneurshiphavereceivedlittleattentionhistorically,thegeneraltopichaspiquedtheinterestofacademicsforgoodreason(Aliaga-IslaandRialp2013).From1990to2013,theglobalimmigrantpopulationroseby51percent,from154millionto232million(UnitedNations2014),whilethetotalglobalpopulationincreasedbyonly34percent(WorldBank2014).Fittingly,attentiontothebroadtopicofimmigration’simpactonhost-countryoutcomeshasreceivedwideattention.Researchhas*WethankBenjaminPowellofTexasTechUniversityandCatalinaAmuedo-DorantesofUniversityofCaliforniaMercedfortheirinsightfulcomments.

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Title	To Assimilate or Not to Assimilate? A Cross-country Study on Assimilating Entrepreneurial Tendencies
Authors/Creators:	Shaomeng Jia, Alabama State University Joshua K. Bedi, Copenhagen Business School
Year:	2022
Volume:	37
Number:	1
Pages:	1 - 31
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	immigration, entrepreneurship, self-employment

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Jia, Shaomeng; Bedi, Joshua K. / 2022. "To Assimilate or Not to Assimilate? A Cross-country Study on Assimilating Entrepreneurial Tendencies." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 37(1): 1-31.