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Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Small Business Administration (SBA) loans have long been one of the most significant policy interventions in the U.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list of all SBA loans linked to annual data on all U.S....

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Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

financial capital "intensiveness", or entry barriers, is effective in explaining differences in entrepreneurship across ethnic …

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...

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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …

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Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-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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Latina Entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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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African Americans’ Pursuit of Self-Employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; bates, timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ …

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Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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