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The Impacts of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...

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Minority Student and Teaching Assistant Interactions in Stem

Oliver, Daniel; Fairlie, Robert W.; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2022

Graduate student teaching assistants from underrepresented groups may provide salient role models and enhanced instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the sciences and STEM – introductory chemistry labs – at a...

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

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014

Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs … throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we …

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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...

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Defining Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2019

components to entrepreneurship – “opportunity” and “necessity” – the latter of which is mostly counter-cyclical. Although there … is some agreement on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there is little … opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship based on the entrepreneur's prior work status (i.e. based on previous unemployment …

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