IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/30624.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Legalizing Entrepreneurship

Author

Listed:
  • Dany Bahar
  • Bo Cowgill
  • Jorge Guzman

Abstract

We use administrative data linked to the complete formal business registry to study a 2018 policy shift in Colombia that made nearly half a million Venezuelan undocumented migrants eligible for a resident visa. Immigrants who receive the visa increase their economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship by a factor as high as 12, bringing it to parity with native Colombians four years later. To establish causal estimates, we develop a novel extension of a regression discontinuity design. Our design uses variation in the running-variable (coming from rain) to instrument for migrants’ choices to apply for visas.

Suggested Citation

  • Dany Bahar & Bo Cowgill & Jorge Guzman, 2022. "Legalizing Entrepreneurship," NBER Working Papers 30624, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30624
    Note: LE PR
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w30624.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
    • K37 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Immigration Law
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    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:nbr:nberwo:30624. 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: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/nberrus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.