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financial capital "intensiveness", or entry barriers, is effective in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across ethnic …
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enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
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-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … factors in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across groups. We also show that the lower self-employment entry rates …
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We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ …
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This note investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...
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this test we aim to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th … per capita income. This suggests that entrepreneurship plays a different role in countries in different stages of economic …
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Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
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attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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