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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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Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …

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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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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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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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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