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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks
Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...
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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race
Hout, Michael - 1999
We focus on the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to be self-employed. Our emphasis is on the role of family background, and in particular, on what we call the intergenerational pick-up rate with respect to self-employment, the probability that a person with a self-employed parent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471440
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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship
Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018
entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480659
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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 1997
Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472547
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Tax Incentives and the Decision to Purchase Health Insurance : Evidence from the Self-Employed
Gruber, Jonathan - 1993
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 introduced a new tax subsidy for health insurance purchases by self-employed persons. This paper analyzes the changing patterns of insurance demand before and after this reform to generate new estimates of how the after tax price of insurance affects the discrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474515
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Tax Enforcement and Tax Policy : Evidence on Taxpayer Responses to EITC Correspondence Audits
Guyton, John - 2018
Each year, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sends notices to selected taxpayers who claim Earned Income Tax credit (EITC) benefits to request additional documentation to verify those claims. This paper uses administrative tax data to examine the impacts of these correspondence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453249
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The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings and Entrepreneurship
Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2016
How does consumer credit access impact job flows, earnings, and entrepreneurship? To answer this question, we build a … results suggest that consumer credit access matters for each stage of entrepreneurship and that credit-checks may be limiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455834
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Resurrecting the Role of the Product Market Wedge in Recessions
Bils, Mark - 2014
Employment and hours appear far more cyclical than dictated by the behavior of productivity and consumption. This puzzle has been called "the labor wedge" -- a cyclical intratemporal wedge between the marginal product of labor and the marginal rate of substitution of consumption for leisure. The...
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