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ENFORCING COVENANTS NOT TO COMPETE: THE LIFE-CYCLE IMPACT ON NEW FIRMS

Starr, Evan; Balasubramanian, Natarajan; Sakakibara, Mariko - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2014

We examine the impact of enforcing non-compete covenants (CNC) on the formation and performance of new firms using matched employer-employee data on 30 US states. To identify the impact of CNC, we exploit the inter-state variation in CNC enforcement along with the fact that courts do not enforce...

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …

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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Entrepreneurship and Japanese Industrialization in Historical Perspective

Tang, John - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2009

Studies of entrepreneurship in nineteenth century Japan typically focus on the activities of leading industrialists who …

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Neighborhood Effects on High-School Drop-Out Rates and Teenage Childbearing: Tests for Non-Linearities, Race-Specific Effects, Interactions with Family Characteristics, and Endogen...

Patterson, Rhiannon - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and the likelihood that a youth will drop out of high school or have a child during the teenage years. Using a dataset that is uniquely wellsuited to the study of neighborhood effects, the impact of the neighborhood...

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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demo- graphics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

Kerr, William; Kugler, Adriana; Autor, David - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2007

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical...

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Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William; Nanda, Ramana - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2007

We study how US branch-banking deregulations affected the entry and exit of firms in the non-financial sector using establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry...

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Clusters and Entrepreneurship

Delgado, Mercedes; Porter, Michael; Stern, Scott - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2010

This paper examines the role of regional clusters in regional entrepreneurship. We focus on the distinct influences of … region-industry. While reversion to the mean and diminishing returns to entrepreneurship at the region-industry level can … impact of clusters on entrepreneurship. After controlling for convergence in start-up activity at the region-industry level …

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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2009

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. …

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