Immigrant Entrepreneurship: New Estimates and a Research Agenda

William Kerr is the corresponding author. This paper is a draft chapter for an upcoming volume Migration and Innovation: A Research Agenda. We thank the volume editors, Francesco Lissoni and Andrea Morrison, and seminar participants for comments. We thank Stuart Anderson and George Hu for helpful data assistance. We gratefully acknowledge funding support by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Harvard Business School. Any views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data used to produce this product. This research was performed at a Federal Statistical Research Data Center under FSRDC Project Numbers 1182, 1731, and 2766. (Request 5948, 8512, CBDRB-FY23-P1731-R10666, CBDRB-FY24-P1731-R11027, CBDRB-FY23-P2766-R10877, and CBDRB-FY23-P2766-R10856). This research uses data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics Program, which was partially supported by the following National Science Foundation Grants SES-9978093, SES-0339191 and ITR-0427889; National Institute on Aging Grant AG018854; and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.