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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...

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The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1986

Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...

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Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment

Borjas, George J. - 1988

Self-employment rates and incomes differ significantly by race. We show that these differentials arise in markets with consumer discrimination and incomplete information about the price of the good and the race of the seller. Equilibrium income distributions have two properties: mean black...

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Beyond 140 Characters : Introduction to The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth

Andrews, Michael J. - 2020

This is an introduction to the forthcoming volume "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth." The … chapters collected in this volume seek to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between innovation/entrepreneurship … and economic growth in specific industrial sectors? How has the relationship between innovation /entrepreneurship and …

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More than an Ivory Tower : The Impact of Research Institutions on the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship

Tartari, Valentina; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

ecosystems. Assessing the impact of research institutions on entrepreneurship is challenging, given that these institutions are … measure both the quantity and quality-adjusted quantity of entrepreneurship at the zip-code level on an annual basis. We then … the quality-adjusted quantity of entrepreneurship. In contrast, increases in non-research funding to universities and …

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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014

Guzman, Jorge - 2016

entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …

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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance

Guzman, Jorge - 2015

A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …

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Theory-Driven Entrepreneurial Search

Chavda, Ankur; Gans, Joshua; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How should theory-based entrepreneurs search for strategies to implement their ideas? The theory-based view of strategy posits that decision-makers hold theories about their environment premised on beliefs that should be actively tested. This causal framework, which underlies the theory-based...

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