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. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for … rapidly growing empirical literature on entrepreneurship, however, have been able to test whether these factors are important … determinants of self-employment. Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability …
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.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … outcomes of native-born Americans.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined …
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Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.  Black business owners are much less likely than white owners to have had a...
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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 estimatetheir impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
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We show that entrepreneurship rates differ substantially across 60 ethnic and racial groups in the United States … of theories of entrepreneurship.  An ethnic/racial group's self-employment rate is positively associated with the …
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This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of entrepreneurship across countries. The paper investigates the … relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self … to increase entrepreneurship. <p …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining …
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