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Mexican entrepreneurship: a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2006

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, 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...

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Mexican-American entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 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. - 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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Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan - 2010

limited research on the topic of entrepreneurship lock by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We … business ownership in the month individuals turn 65. Our estimates provide some evidence that entrepreneurship lock exists …

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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? : The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2004

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...

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Determinants of business success: an examination of Asian-owned businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia M.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 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 white-owned businesses in...

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Gender differences in business performance: evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2008

Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...

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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. - 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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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2006

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

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