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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze …-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809043
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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821909
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010
significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011536
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013
entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787342
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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020
the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162904
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African Americans ̉pursuit of self-employment
Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor);  … - 2007
differences in entrepreneurship. The barriers facing aspiring entrepreneurs seeking entry into low-barrier industries differ … predicted by one's race. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; entry barriers ; African American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591481
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: the case of Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517855
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Gender disparities in employment and earnings in sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2016
In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing on the country's first two (2007 and 2010) Labor Force Surveys. We find that even though the global financial crisis had a less severe effect on the labor market outcomes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595966
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A wage-efficiency spatial model for US self-employed workers
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016
time-use data from the American Time Use Survey 2003-2014 to analyze the spatial distribution of self-employment across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449760