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
the highest rates of entrepreneurship.
• Among immigrants, 52.1 percent owned a home
compared with 70.8 percent of non-immigrants.