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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

equity increases the mean probability of entrepreneurship by roughly 20 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at …

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Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia M.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than whiteowned businesses in...

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Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...

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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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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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 estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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