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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron - 2014

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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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2021

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially...

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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men : 1910-1990

Fairlie, Robert W.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2021

We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...

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Why are There so Few Black Entrepreneurs?

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010

Black entrepreneurship has been unsuccessful in the U.S. The fraction of employed blacks that work in their own …

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The First Deal : The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014

This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity...

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Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People's Republic of China

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2014

imbalance may also stimulate economic growth by inducing more entrepreneurship and hard work. First, new domestic private firms …

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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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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …

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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2006

an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …

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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users Across 49 Years on Taobao

Wang, Youwei - 2018

We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...

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