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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : a new employment series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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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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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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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small business borrowers achieved so little success in the United States?

Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 25 (2011) 3, pp. 255-266

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Lack of selection and limits to delegation : firm dynamics in developing countries

Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Peters, Michael - 2016

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Young, restless and creative : openness to disruption and creative innovations

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Çelik, Murat Alp - 2014

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Young, restless and creative : openness to disruption and creative innovations

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Çelik, Murat Alp - 2014

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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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Young, restless and creative : openness to disruption and creative innovations

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Çelik, Murat Alp - 2014

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Lack of selection and limits to delegation : firm dynamics in developing countries

Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Peters, Michael - In: American economic review 111 (2021) 1, pp. 231-275

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