Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and thedifferences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little isknown about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and theirdescendants...

Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia`s 2001 flat rate income tax reformon consumption, income, and tax evasion. We use the gap between household expendituresand reported earnings as a proxy for tax evasion with data from a household panel for 1998-2004. Utilizing...

At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...