President Calderón during Meeting with Mexican Ambassadors and Consuls Abroad

Monday, January 7 | Speech


It is proven that the Mexican migrants have assimilated to the American culture and that they respect their laws. It is also proven that there is more entrepeneurship, for example the Kauffman Foundation indicates that the index of business activity is 40 percent superior among the migrant workers that among the native U.S. population.

This it is an important way to counteract the anti-immigrant and anti-mexican environment that contaminates our relations in the region.

TRANSLATED FROM:
http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/prensa/?contenido=33204

KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION STUDY:

http://research.kauffman.org/cwp/appman ... nfls=false

Abstract: Determines the self-employment rates for immigrants to the United States, examines how this differs from native-born men's self-employment rates, and analyzes the impact of assimilation and changes in cohort quality on the immigrant population's self-employment experience. Prior research on the labor market participation of immigrants has often ignored self-employment. Data drawn from the 1970 and the 1980 U.S. Census were analyzed. The sample selection was limited to male persons aged 18-24 in 1970 and 28-64 in 1980, and the study was conducted separately for each of six major immigrant groups: Mexican, Cuban, other Hispanic, Asian, Caucasian, and African-American.

Findings show that education has a positive, significant impact on self-employment rates in all samples. Self-employment increases with labor force experience and marital status, with the exception of African-American males. Surprisingly, poor health status of individuals was shown to have a positive impact on self-employment for most of the immigrant groups studied. Also demonstrated is the fact that self-employment probabilities are almost always larger for immigrants than for the native-born. For immigrants who have resided in the U.S. for 10 years or more, the probability of self-employment is equal to or greater than for the native-born. In the absence of quality differences among immigrant cohorts, most of the self-employment gap propensities between foreign and native-born are created within 5 to 10 years after immigration. Therefore, it can be concluded that assimilation increases self-employment probabilities. As well, geographic enclaves of immigrants increase the self-employment opportunities for immigrants sharing the same national background or language as the residents of the enclave. (SFL)