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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for … rapidly growing empirical literature on entrepreneurship, however, have been able to test whether these factors are important … determinants of self-employment. Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability …
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.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … outcomes of native-born Americans.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined …
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Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.  Black business owners are much less likely than white owners to have had a...
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Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
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We show that entrepreneurship rates differ substantially across 60 ethnic and racial groups in the United States … of theories of entrepreneurship.  An ethnic/racial group's self-employment rate is positively associated with the …
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Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
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We examine trends in entrepreneurship among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata …
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entrepreneurship among several ethnic/racial groups in the United States.  I find rapid growth rates for the number of self …
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between computer ownership and entrepreneurship.  Trends over the past two decades provide some evidence of a positive … relationship between home computers and entrepreneurship rates, but the evidence is not clear.  In contrast, an analysis of the … relationship between computer ownership and entrepreneurship at the individual level provides evidence that individuals who had …
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