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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States

Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...

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Does education enhance entrepreneurship?

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2021

. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …

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Testing the differential impact of COVID-19 on self-employed women and men in the United Kingdom

Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021

-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …

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2D:4D and self-employment using SOEP data : a replication study

Fossen, Frank M.; Neyse, Levent; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N.; Popova, Olga - 2020

, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to 2017 and a difference … this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the …

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Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022

administrative firm-level panel data covering the universe of businesses filing sales taxes from the California Department of Tax and …

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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

of active small businesses in the United States using nationally representative data from the April 2020 CPS - the first …

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013

fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015

insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … representative household panel data for Germany, which include personal health information, and we account for non-random sample ….e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock, which an …

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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015

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