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Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Rosen, Harvey S.; Weathers, Robert - 2021

The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …

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Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment : Evidence from Intergenerational Links

Dunn, Thomas A.; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021

The environment for business creation is central to economic policy, as entrepreneurs are believed to be forces of innovation, employment and economic dynamism. We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) to investigate the relative importance of financial and human capital...

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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2018

This paper examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the decennial U.S. Census throughout the entire 20th century. It is well known that there has been a rapid rise in Mexican immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly,...

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Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs

Holtz-Eakin, Doug - 2016

Some commentators have suggested that the absence of portable health insurance impedes people from leaving their jobs to start new firms. We investigate this belief by comparing wage-earners who become self-employed during a given period of time with their counterparts who do not. By examining...

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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurs' Use of Labor

Carroll, Robert; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Rider, Mark; … - 2021

This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurs' personal income tax situations on their use of labor. We analyze the income tax returns of a large number of sole proprietors before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and determine how the substantial reductions in marginal tax rates...

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On the Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Trade

Borjas, George J.; Freeman, Richard B.; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

In the 1980s, the wages and employment rates of less-skilled Americans fell relative to those of more-skilled workers. This paper examines the contribution of the continuing inflow of less-skilled immigrants and the increasing importance of imports in the U.S. economy to these trends. Our...

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Sticking it Out : Entrepreneurial Survival and Liquidity Constraints

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Joulfaian, David; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the conditional amounts of depreciable assets, ceteris...

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Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Joulfaian, David; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor : The United States in Historical Perspective

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2013

This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de-skilling in the conventional sense did occur overall in nineteenth century manufacturing, a more nuanced picture is that occupations "hollowed out": the share of "middle-skill" jobs -...

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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019

This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...

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