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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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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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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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We examine the efficacy of providing self-employment training to unemployed and other individuals interested in self-employment using data from Project GATE. This experimental design program offered self-employment training services to a random sample of individuals who expressed a strong...
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relatively large amount of specific human capital, social capital and self-confidence relevant for entrepreneurship. The paper …
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Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the impact of high school cohort composition on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals during their early 20s and again during their late 20s and early 30s. We find that having more high...
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Combining large (up to 25%) extracts of five French censuses and data from Labor Force Surveys for 1968–1999, we use Borjas' (2003) factor proportions methodology for France and find that a 10 p.p. increase in the immigrant share raises natives' wages by 3.3%, which is in stark contrast with...
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This paper studies the occupational choices of highly educated native-born American males and links their choices to cultural attitudes toward pecuniary rewards and social prestige in their ancestral countries. These cultural attitudes were reported in the World Values Survey, which surveyed...
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I study the interaction between discrimination and investment using a directed search model where firms decide the capital intensity of their production technologies before being matched. Discrimination makes some workers cheap to hire. As a consequence, some firms might save on capital costs...
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Residential segregation has played a central role in theories of minority entrepreneurship. This study integrates two …
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