Hispanic-Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Hispanic-Immigrant Entrepreneurs
This chapter highlights that a large part of the story behind Hispanic entrepreneurship in the 2000s involved Hispanic immigrants. As part of the discussion, the chapter points out that Hispanic-immigrant entrepreneurs added significant value to the U.S. economy in first decade of the 2000s. It also analyzes the differences in sales between firms owned by foreign-born and U.S.-born Hispanics as well as how demographic characteristics (including ethnic origin, industry distributions, and the geographic concentrations of self-employed Hispanic immigrants) changed in the first decade of the 2000s. Issues related to self-selection are further considered, as are the contributions of Hispanic-immigrant-owned businesses to government coffers.
Keywords: Hispanic immigrant entrepreneurs, self-employed Hispanic immigrants, immigrant-owned businesses, Hispanic-immigrant employment creation, Hispanic-immigrant entrepreneurs and taxes
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