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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Entrepreneurship and the City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

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Female entrepreneurship : evidence from Germany and the Baltic Sea Region and analysis of women's activity in SMEs in Poland

Hogeforster, Max (contributor) - 2014

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Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2008

The answer is yes. By using a unique and large data set on overdraft contracts between banks and microfirms and self-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any evidence that women are riskier then men. The...

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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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An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...

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