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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate … entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with … access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon's market. This …

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Tax neutrality: illusion or reality?: the case of entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa; Panteghini, Paolo M. - 2008

This paper shows that taxes which are understood to be neutral with respect to the marginal investment decisions may be distortionary with respect to entrepreneurial decisions. In particular, we apply an intertemporal model to show that a comprehensive income tax is distortionary unless all...

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Nordic dual income taxation of entrepreneurs

Kanniainen, Vesa; Kari, Seppo; Ylä-Liedenpohja, Jouko - 2005

The paper shows how entrepreneurial taxes interact with the career choice of individuals, the quality of entrepreneurs, and their effort and investments. It is particularly relevant to differentiate the early effects on start-up enterprises with substantial uncertainty from the tax effects on...

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Entrepreneurship, economic conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2013

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …

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Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring their First Employee

Fairlie, Robert W.; Miranda, Javier - 2016

Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring … Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through Entrepreneurship (GATE) experiment are used to provide some of the first … largest random experiment providing entrepreneurship training in the United States ever conducted, we do not find evidence …

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

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