{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Tamborini CR"],"funding":["NICHD NIH HHS"],"pagination":["17-34"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11969445"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["62(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Self-employment plays a crucial role in immigrants' economic assimilation. Previous studies examining immigrants' self-employment relied on estimates obtained from national surveys, which could contain measurement error. In this research note, we compare estimates of immigrant men's self-employment obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with those from data linking respondents to their tax records. Our findings indicate that the CPS substantially underestimates the immigrant-native gap in self-employment. In some cases, the rate of self-employment for immigrants from administrative data is nearly double that obtained from survey data alone. Measurement error also appears to distort estimated differences in self-employment among immigrants by race, ethnicity, and national origin."],"journal":["Demography"],"pubmed_title":["Research Note: New Estimates of Immigrants' Self-employment From Linked Tax Records."],"pmcid":["PMC11969445"],"funding_grant_id":["P2C HD041022"],"pubmed_authors":["Villarreal A","Tamborini CR"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Research Note: New Estimates of Immigrants' Self-employment From Linked Tax Records.","description":"Self-employment plays a crucial role in immigrants' economic assimilation. Previous studies examining immigrants' self-employment relied on estimates obtained from national surveys, which could contain measurement error. In this research note, we compare estimates of immigrant men's self-employment obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with those from data linking respondents to their tax records. Our findings indicate that the CPS substantially underestimates the immigrant-native gap in self-employment. In some cases, the rate of self-employment for immigrants from administrative data is nearly double that obtained from survey data alone. Measurement error also appears to distort estimated differences in self-employment among immigrants by race, ethnicity, and national origin.","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Feb","modification":"2026-05-29T15:32:03.511Z","creation":"2025-07-08T03:13:28.654Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11969445","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39846746"],"doi":["10.1215/00703370-11773170"]}}