Voices of Anakazi with Yareka

• Businesses owned by immigrants have an average

sales level of $435,000, roughly 70 percent of the

average sales level of non-immigrant firms.

• Immigrant-owned businesses are slightly more

likely to hire employees than are non-immigrant-

owned firms; however, they tend to hire fewer

employees on average.

• Immigrant-owned businesses are more likely to

export their goods and services. Among immi-

grant businesses, 7.1 percent export compared

with only 4.4 percent for non-immigrant busi-

nesses.

• Entrepreneurship increases with maturity, and

married people are more likely to start a business.

• More generally, there is a U-shaped relation-

ship between entrepreneurship and education.

Entrepreneurship rates are lower for high school

graduates than for high school dropouts, but

entrepreneurship rates are similar between those

with some college and high school graduates.

College graduates have higher rates of entrepre-

neurship, and those with graduate degrees have