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Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

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Identity and Entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - CESifo - 2009

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...

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Entrepreneurship in a Unionised Economy

Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - CESifo - 2000

labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - CESifo - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - CESifo - 2012

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …

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Unemployment Risk and Wage Differentials

Pinheiro, Roberto; Visschers, Ludo - CESifo - 2013

Workers in less secure jobs are often paid less than identical-looking workers in more secure jobs. We show that this lack of compensating differentials for unemployment risk can arise in equilibrium when all workers are identical and firms differ only in job security (i.e. the probability that...

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Family Job Search, Wage Bargainings, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2010

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...

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The Desire for Impact

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - CESifo - 2005

This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make firms in a competitive labor market act as monopsonists, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the...

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