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employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with …
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The “Great Recession” resulted in many business closings and foreclosures, but what effect did it have on business … formation? On the one hand, recessions decrease potential business income and wealth, but on the other hand they restrict … opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata …
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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … challenged because of the finding that the relationship between business entry rates and assets is flat throughout most of the … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate … labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this … effects on business sales, earnings, or employees. …
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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 … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...
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Self-employed individuals have arguably greater opportunities than wage earners to underreport their incomes. The incentives for underreporting should be especially strong in an economy with generally high taxes. This paper uses recent income and expenditure data to examine the extent of...
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In recent years, the study of how individuals respond to policies that aim at promoting pension savings has emerged as a vital area of economic research. This paper adds to this literature by estimating the tax price elasticity of contributions to tax-favoured pension savings accounts on a...
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We empirically investigate the determinants of the female decision of investing in post-secondary education, focusing on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two-period model to analyze the female decision of investing in...
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In this paper, we discuss a novel aspect of affirmative action policy. We examine its redistributive role, asking whether in an egalitarian society, supplementing the tax-transfer system with an affirmative action policy would enhance social welfare.
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