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Garcia, Raffi E.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...

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Race and Gender in Entrepreneurial Finance

Ewens, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings

Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Many small businesses have closed, lost revenues, or downsized as a response to health and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19. But, were economic losses in the pandemic disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of...

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Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

administrative firm-level panel data covering the universe of businesses filing sales taxes from the California Department of Tax and …

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Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Brazil

Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...

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Self-employment programs and outcomes for disadvantaged jobseekers

Kelly, Ross (contributor); Lewis, Philip E. T. (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The Transformation of Self Employment

Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

self-employment to 23%. This same time period also witnessed declines in "hometown" local entrepreneurship and the … probability of the self-employed being among top earners. Using 2016 data, we show that high startup capital requirements are …

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Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed

Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western … behavioral features driving our choice data. We find that these features distort choices when exchanging cash either for time or …

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Structural Change in Labor Supply and Cross-Country Differences in Hours Worked

Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Lagakos, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-employment sector. When estimated to match cross-country data, the model predicts that sectoral reallocation explains more than half of …

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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence On Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys

Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and … administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self … employees in conventional household survey data and those who are independent contractors in a secondary work activity. We find …

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