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On Austrian analysis of entrepreneurship and my own
Baumol, William J. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001836266
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Demographics and Entrepreneurship
Liang, James - 2014
Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047037
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Women in the migrant economy : a positional approach to contextualize gendered transnational trajectories
Villares-Varela, María; Essers, Caroline - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 31 (2019) 3/4, pp. 213-225
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012205403
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The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity : a cross-country analysis
Khurana, Indu; Habiyaremye, Alexis; Avsar, Veysel; … - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 35 (2023) 7/8, pp. 593-616
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340405
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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137015
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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets
Casella, Alessandra - 2012
We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. The choice is binary and the number of supporters of either alternative is known. We identify a sufficient condition guaranteeing the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097274
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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields : Evidence from California
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2013
The low number of college graduates with science degrees -- particularly among under-represented minorities -- is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086680
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The Impacts of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833112
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Minority Representation in Local Government
Beach, Brian - 2018
Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this question, we study close elections for California city council seats between white and nonwhite candidates. We find that nonwhite candidates generate differential gains in housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908828
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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's Reclaim Program
Mansur, Erin T. - 2019
We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a counterfactual command-and-control policy. We develop a normatively significant metric with which to rank the various distributions in a manner consistent with an explicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889502