Irrepressible Entrepreneurs: Economic Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Filed in archive Biz Opportunities on February 15, 2007

What opportunities do these entrepreneurs pursue?

Is there a difference in the type of businesses they form?

Are they more vigorous and energetic?

In New York City, immigrants made up 36 percent the population, yet they accounted for nearly half, or 49 percent, of all self-employed workers in the city, as of 2000.

Immigrants drove all of the growth in the city's self-employed population between 1990 and 2000: the number of immigrants who were self-employed jumped 53 percent while the number of native-born people who were self-employed fell 7 percent. Via Immigrant Entrepreneurs Ignite Economy

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