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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - CESifo - 2012

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886140

Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - CESifo - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948873

Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - CESifo - 2013

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

equity increases the mean probability of entrepreneurship by roughly 20 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at …

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Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data: An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...

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Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia M.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than whiteowned businesses in...

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