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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. 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 composition nor...

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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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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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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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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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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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