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Title: We Never Needed Papers to Thrive": A Comparative View of Latino Millennial Entrepreneurship by Nativity

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Self-employed immigrants and entrepreneurs play an important role in the U.S. economy and, yet, go virtually unrecognized since there is no direct way to differentiate entrepreneurs by immigration status. U.S. federal law purposefully allows any immigrant regardless of immigration status to generate income through entrepreneurship. Thus, creating a window of opportunity for undocumented immigrants to create, innovate and thrive in this country. While there is ample research on immigrant entrepreneurs and subgroups of immigrants, none has focused on undocumented immigrant entrepreneurship. This study used the 2015 U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year and 5-year estimates that consisted of 635,855 (3.9 percent of the total U.S. millennial population) weighted cases of Latino millennial entrepreneurs (self-employed in incorporated or unincorporated businesses). Of these, 200,565 (31.54 percent of the total self-employed Latino millennial population) are estimated to . . .

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Authors: Perez, Iliana, G

Institution: The Claremont Graduate University

Department: Education

Advisor: William Perez

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Claremont, California

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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