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Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...

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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon

Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010

significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … starting a business. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; start-ups ; Germany …

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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009

-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …

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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employment ; entrepreneurship …

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African Americans ̉pursuit of self-employment

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); … - 2007

differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ … predicted by one's race. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; entry barriers ; African American …

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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...

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