Author
Listed:
- Arora, Punit
- Nagaraj, Priya
- Bengoa, Marta
- Mukherjee, Debmalya
Abstract
Immigrant entrepreneurship is a crucial topic of interest for academics, policymakers, and the popular press. Discussions of related topics often use intersectionality to explain the compounding effects of multiple “oppressed” identities; the current study provides some novel insights into how intersectional effects can also confer unique advantages to immigrant populations in the United States. We examine intersectional effects across immigrants' higher education, their home country's entrepreneurial culture, and the host country's state-level institutional environment on the probability that people become entrepreneurs. With a sample constructed from multiple sources and spanning 2005 to 2019, this research explores the channels that affect immigrants' self-selection into entrepreneurship. Although higher education and entrepreneurial cultural background positively affect new venture creation, state-level institutional barriers, like E-Verify mandates, create heterogeneous effects across immigrant groups. Furthermore, the entrepreneurial culture of immigrants' home countries leaves a lasting impression on venture creation, particularly when combined with higher education and even in the face of institutional barriers. This study offers policy makers relevant insights for how to augment the contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs and enhance the positive spillovers of new venture creation.
Suggested Citation
Arora, Punit & Nagaraj, Priya & Bengoa, Marta & Mukherjee, Debmalya, 2025.
"Immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States: Intersectionality as a blessing and a curse,"
Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 40(4).
Handle:
RePEc:eee:jbvent:v:40:y:2025:i:4:s0883902625000291
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2025.106501
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to
for a different version of it.
Corrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:jbvent:v:40:y:2025:i:4:s0883902625000291. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jbusvent .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through
the various RePEc services.