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We examine trends in entrepreneurship among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata …
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entrepreneurship among several ethnic/racial groups in the United States.  I find rapid growth rates for the number of self …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for … rapidly growing empirical literature on entrepreneurship, however, have been able to test whether these factors are important … determinants of self-employment. Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability …
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.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … outcomes of native-born Americans.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined …
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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 estimatetheir impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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We show that entrepreneurship rates differ substantially across 60 ethnic and racial groups in the United States … of theories of entrepreneurship.  An ethnic/racial group's self-employment rate is positively associated with the …
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entrepreneurship and a different measure ofwealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at theupper tail of the distribution. These estimates are not …
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between computer ownership and entrepreneurship.  Trends over the past two decades provide some evidence of a positive … relationship between home computers and entrepreneurship rates, but the evidence is not clear.  In contrast, an analysis of the … relationship between computer ownership and entrepreneurship at the individual level provides evidence that individuals who had …
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The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity is a leading indicator of new business creation in the United States.  Capturing new business owners in their first month of significant business activity, this measure provides the earliest documentation of new business development across the...
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