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Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship

Dillon, Eleanor W. - 2017

with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …

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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...

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The Transformation of Self Employment

Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

self-employment to 23%. This same time period also witnessed declines in "hometown" local entrepreneurship and the …

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The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1986

Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...

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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa

Hunt, Jennifer - 2009

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

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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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 1997

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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Tax Enforcement and Tax Policy : Evidence on Taxpayer Responses to EITC Correspondence Audits

Guyton, John - 2018

Each year, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sends notices to selected taxpayers who claim Earned Income Tax credit (EITC) benefits to request additional documentation to verify those claims. This paper uses administrative tax data to examine the impacts of these correspondence...

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The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings and Entrepreneurship

Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2016

How does consumer credit access impact job flows, earnings, and entrepreneurship? To answer this question, we build a … results suggest that consumer credit access matters for each stage of entrepreneurship and that credit-checks may be limiting …

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