Erschienen in:Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Research Paper Series ; No. 15-04
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1 Online-Ressource (33 p)
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Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2567426
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 1, 2015 erstellt
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Using microdata from the U.S. Survey of Business Owners (SBO) released in 2012, this study examines transnational activities of immigrant-owned businesses in three aspects: whether they export, outsource jobs, and have overseas establishments. Results show that immigrant-owned firms have significantly higher tendency to be involved in transnational economic activities when compared to non-immigrant owned firms. Immigrant firms without transnational activities have significantly smaller size of employees, annual total sales and total payrolls than non-immigrant firms. However, immigrant owned firms with transnational activities fare significantly better than non-immigrant owned firms without transnational activities. These findings speak directly to the long-debated issues concerning different motivations and performance outcomes of immigrant business ownership