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Why are black-owned business less successful than white-owned business? : the role of families, inheritances, and business human capital

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - In: Journal of labor economics 25 (2007) 2, pp. 289-323

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Financial capital, human capital, and the transition to self-employment : evidence from intergenerational links

Dunn, Thomas A.; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - In: Journal of labor economics 18 (2000) 2, pp. 282-305

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Rationality of Self-Employment: Do Female and Male Entrepreneurs Differ?

Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

It is not clear, whether changes in self-employment are primarily driven by the necessity to take part in the labour market, or if those activities reflect new modes of labour market integration revealing new opportunities and markets, which are especially due in wide parts to the service and...

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Spatial Disparities: Divisions and Changes of Self-employment and Firms

Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

entrepreneurship and asks for its overlapping with categories of self-employment and of innovation. Although these terms cover only … partially the same meanings, political discourse often equals the slogan to foster entrepreneurship and innovation with an … firms without further employees. An equation of entrepreneurship with innovation activities and in-creasing self …

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Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions. When do they Arise?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - 2013

This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual pure ethnic gap. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...

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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US

Giulietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015

Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...

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Neighborhood Racial Characteristics, Credit History, and Bankcard Credit in Indian Country

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - 2015

We examine whether concerns about lenders’ discrimination based on community racial characteristics can be empirically substantiated in the context of neighborhoods on and near American Indian reservations. Drawing on a large-scale dataset consisting of individual-level credit bureau records,...

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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2019

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...

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Slave prices, geography and insolation in 19th century African-American stature

Carson, Scott Alan - 2007

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. Moreover, while much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century institutional arrangements were related to black stature....

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