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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quality and Quantity of Entrepreneurship for 32 Us States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity but also the initial quality … cycles as a driver of high-growth entrepreneurship, our results highlight the role of economic and institutional conditions …
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Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs
Holtz-Eakin, Doug - 2016
Some commentators have suggested that the absence of portable health insurance impedes people from leaving their jobs to start new firms. We investigate this belief by comparing wage-earners who become self-employed during a given period of time with their counterparts who do not. By examining...
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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 …
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Do Equal Employment Opportunity Statements Backfire? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment on Job-Entry Decisions
Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2018
Labor force composition and the allocation of talent remain of vital import to modern economies. For their part, governments and companies around the globe have implemented equal employment opportunity (EEO) regulations to influence labor market flows. Even though such regulations are pervasive,...
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Choosing Electoral Rules : Theory and Evidence from Us Cities
Aghion, Philippe; Alesina, Alberto; Trebbi, Francesco - 2021
This paper studies the choice of electoral rules, in particular, the question of minority representation. Majorities tend to disenfranchise minorities through strategic manipulation of electoral rules. With the aim of explaining changes in electoral rules adopted by US cities (particularly in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240348
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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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Affirmative Action : One Size Does Not Fit All
Krishna, Kala - 2013
This paper identifies a new reason for giving preferences to the disadvantaged using a model of contests. There are two forces at work: the effort effect working against giving preferences and the selection effect working for them. When education is costly and easy to obtain (as in the U.S.),...
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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....
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Minorities and Storable Votes
Casella, Alessandra - 2009
The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of votes to spend as desidered over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on issues that it deems most...
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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps
Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2013
This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one%u2019s group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three...
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