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The Transformation of Self Employment
Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed. Since 1970, industries with high startup capital requirements have declined from 53% of self-employment to 23%. This same time period...
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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs
Blanchflower, David G. - 2008
n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...
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Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
Dillon, Eleanor W. - 2017
Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of self-employment relative to pay in a single year. This paper first documents that...
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Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?
Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2016
Do potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of concerns that they will face worse job opportunities should their entrepreneurial ventures fail? Using a Canadian reform that extended job-protected leave to one year for women giving birth after a cutoff date, we study whether the...
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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Howell, Sabrina T. - 2019
Exploiting random variation in the number of venture capitalist (VC) judges assigned to panels at Harvard Business School's New Venture Competition (NVC) between 2000 and 2015, we find that exposure to more VC judges increases male participants' chances of founding a VC-backed startup after HBS...
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Vertical Networks and US Auto Parts Exports : Is Japan Different?
Head, Keith - 2002
, while Japan is a large parts importer, the composition of its imports is shifted away from parts where vertical keiretsu are …
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Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2015
Japan which lowered the cost of passenger travel but left shipping costs unchanged. Using an exhaustive dataset on firms …
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CEO Gender Bias in the Formation of Firm-to-Firm Transactions
Izumi, Yutaro; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Yagasaki, Masayuki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While female CEOs are under-represented, the barriers they face in the business environment remain poorly understood. This study investigates the influence of gender bias in forming CEOs' business networks. Using transaction data of 1 million Japanese firms, we find that CEOs of the same gender...
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Star Scientists, Institutions, and the Entry of Japanese Biotechnology Enterprises
Darby, Michael R. - 1996
industry. Comparing Japan and the U.S., the structure of the science appears broadly similar, but the organization of the … existing firms (NBSs). We report pooled poisson regression estimates of the relation of NBE births in Japan to top-producing is … at work in Japan and America, stars in Japan induce entry of significantly fewer NBEs than in the U.S. and preexisting …
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Hope for Whom? Financial Aid for the Middle Class and Its Impact on College Attendance
Dynarski, Susan - 2000
The federal government and the states have recently enacted a slew of aid policies aimed at college students from middle- and high-income families. I estimate the impact of aid on the college attendance of middle- and upper-income youth by evaluating Georgia's HOPE Scholarship, the inspiration...
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