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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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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...
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entrepreneurship. Using decomposition methods we find that, for males from the Asian groups, changes in observable characteristics … generation. The dynamics of Black male and Pakistani/Bangladeshi female entrepreneurship are less easy to explain. We also find … rates of entrepreneurship for some groups, notably Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. …
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-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
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There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
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or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …
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Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...
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Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self …-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to … survival probability in entrepreneurship for Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants, which does not carry on to their U …
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Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic … the impact of return migration on entrepreneurship is affected by double unobservable migrant self-selection, both at the …
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This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...
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