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The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons : Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs

Bahar, Dany; Cowgill, Bo; Guzman, Jorge - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal … created include both employer and non-employer firms and are relatively low on assets. In panel data specifications, the …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …

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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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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

substantial differences in future economic outcomes. Using Census Bureau data, we characterize the different career profiles of …

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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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Self-Employment Within the Firm

Bassi, Vittorio; Lee, Jay; Peter, Alessandra; Porzio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We … with our data, and find large barriers to labor specialization. This setting is close, in terms of aggregate productivity …

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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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