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IN SEARCH OF BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP: WHY IS THERE A LACK OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY AMONG THE BLACK POPULATION IN SOUTH AFRICA?
PREISENDÖRFER, PETER; BITZ, ANSGAR; BEZUIDENHOUT, FRANS J. - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 17 (2012) 01, pp. 1250006-1
Compared to other ethnic groups, the black population of South Africa has a low participation rate in entrepreneurship …, merit further investigation with respect to the question of why there is a lack of black entrepreneurship in South Africa. …
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MOTIVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONALITY: CHINESE AND AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
PLANT, ROBERT; REN, JEN - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 15 (2010) 02, pp. 187-204
In this paper, we compare the intentionality of students in graduate business programs in the United States and China toward becoming entrepreneurs. We utilize Amabile's Work Preference Inventory (WPI) to examine the motivational dimension of entrepreneurial intentionality and the Theory of...
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
SALGADO-BANDA, HÉCTOR - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 12 (2007) 01, pp. 3-29
This study examines the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth by using a new variable based on patent data to … proxy for productive entrepreneurship. Data on self-employment is used as an alternative proxy. The study considers 22 OECD … countries and finds a positive relationship between the proposed measure of productive entrepreneurship — degree of …
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AMONG RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NORWAY AND THEIR STAY-AT-HOME PEERS
VINOGRADOV, EVGUENI; GABELKO, MARIA - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 15 (2010) 04, pp. 461-479
relatively large amount of specific human capital, social capital and self-confidence relevant for entrepreneurship. The paper …
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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 8, pp. 2567-91
Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate models that include both student and classroom fixed...
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Fertility Transitions along the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Aaronson, Daniel; Lange, Fabian; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 11, pp. 3701-24
By allowing for an extensive margin in the standard quantity-quality model, we generate new insights into fertility transitions. We test the model on Southern black women aected by a large-scale school construction program. Consistent with our model, women facing improved schooling opportunities...
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German Jewish ?migr?s and US Invention
Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra; Waldinger, Fabian - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 10, pp. 3222-55
Historical accounts suggest that Jewish ?migr?s from Nazi Germany revolutionized US science. To analyze the ?migr?s' effects on chemical innovation in the United States, we compare changes in patenting by US inventors in research fields of ?migr?s with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing
Alesina, Alberto; Ferrara, Eliana La - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 11, pp. 3397-3433
We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the US and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We model the courts as minimizing type I and II errors. If trial courts were unbiased, conditional on defendants race the error rate should be independent of...
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Labor-Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap: 1940-1990
Chandra, Amitabh - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 333-338
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233539
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Intergroup Economic Inequality in South Africa: The Post-apartheid Era
Sherer, George - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 317-321
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