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Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

This paper describes measurement of a self-employment rate and the important role the agricultural sector plays in any analysis of the determinants of self-employment. The determinants of the self-employment rate are modeled using a panel of 23 countries for the period 1966-1996. A similar...

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An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

Blanchflower, David G.; Wainwright, Jon S. - 2021

The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...

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Self-Employment : More May Not Be Better

Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

I present information on self-employment from seventy countries. Self-employment rates are generally down across the OECD. The main exceptions are the UK, and New Zealand. The probability of being self-employed across the OECD is higher for men and for older workers compared with younger...

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Entrepreneurs in Australia and the United States

Blanchflower, David G.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2021

This paper examines the pattern of self-employment in Australia and the United States. We particularly focus on the movement of young people in and out of self-employment using comparable longitudinal data from the two countries. We find that the forces that influence whether a person becomes...

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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...

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Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William - 2014

important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … examining the relevance of financing constraints for entrepreneurship. We then introduce a framework that provides a unified …

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Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

Kerr, William - 2014

Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that … entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is …

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House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2015

We use Census micro data to shed new light on how growth in house prices boosts US entrepreneurship. At the height of …-level relationship between house price increases and entrepreneurship operates through expansion of the home equity collateral channel … entrepreneurship observed in city-level analyses comes from higher local demand that boosts entry. Our results provide a nuanced …

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Entrepreneurship, Happiness and Supernormal Returns : Evidence from Britain and the Us

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

Do entrepreneurs earn supernormal returns, or does competitive pressure ensure that entrepreneurs receive the same utility level as workers? If those who run their own businesses get supernormal returns (or 'rents') they should be happier than those who work as employees. The paper tests this...

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Evidence on Inheritance and Capital Constraints

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

The paper studies the factors which shape entrepreneurship among young adults. It finds, using data on a British birth …

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