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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 933-952

Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today’s skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Utilizing data from the survey of income and program participation, this paper provides an analysis of the economic returns to business ownership among low-skilled workers and...

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African Americans’ pursuit of self-employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 1, pp. 73-86

We examine causes of black/white gaps in self-employment entry rates in the United States by recognizing that industry context heavily shapes impacts of owner resource endowments on the likelihood of successful entry. Barriers to entry, briefly stated, are high in some lines of business and low...

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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?

Bates, Timothy; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 25 (2011) 3, pp. 255-266

Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...

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Patents, knowledge spillovers, and entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan; Sanders, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 4, pp. 801-817

development (R&D) and generate new knowledge. This new knowledge has a positive effect on entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth …. However, after some point, further strengthening of patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently …

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An absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship

Qian, Haifeng; Acs, Zoltan - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 185-197

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship identifies new knowledge as a source of entrepreneurial … firms or research institutions. This paper argues that, knowledge spillover entrepreneurship depends not only on new …, recognize its value, and commercialize it by creating a firm. This absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover …

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Global entrepreneurship and institutions: an introduction

Levie, Jonathan; Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltan; Hart, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 437-444

This article is an introduction to the special issue from the 4th Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference …. The second is to present a summary of the papers in the context of the utility of GEM data in comparative entrepreneurship …

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Introduction to special issue of Small Business Economics on female entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies

Acs, Zoltan; Bardasi, Elena; Estrin, Saul; Svejnar, Jan - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 4, pp. 393-396

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Knowledge spillover entrepreneurship in an endogenous growth model

Acs, Zoltan; Sanders, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 775-795

production processes. Our model embeds the core idea of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship in established …We present a model that separates entrepreneurship from profit-motivated corporate R&D aimed at improving existing …

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - In: Small Business Economics 33 (2009) 4, pp. 427-439

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Determinants of business success: an examination of Asian-owned businesses in the USA

Robb, Alicia; Fairlie, Robert - In: Journal of Population Economics 22 (2009) 4, pp. 827-858

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