Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor墨西哥近四分之一的劳动力为个体经营者。但在美国，墨西哥裔美国人的个体经营率仅为6%，约为非拉丁裔白人个体经营率的一半。本研究利用墨西哥与美国的人口普查数据，表明无论是产业结构还是