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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...

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Entrepreneurship, economic conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

The Great Recession resulted in many business closings and foreclosures, but what effect did it have on business formation? On the one hand, recessions decrease potential business income and wealth, but on the other hand they restrict opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net...

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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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Are Business Start-Ups Liquidity Constrained? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Allocation of Housing Wealth in East Germany

Fuchs, Tobias; Gebhardt, Georg - 2019

Are entrepreneurs liquidity constraint? Using quasi-random housing wealth variation resulting from communist era decisions, we argue yes, as we find that wealthier East Germans are more likely to become self-employed after reunification. In the literature, no such strong relationship was found...

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Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers: Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector

Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018

tripled the number of businesses within ten years and led to slower earnings growth and higher unemployment for incumbent …

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Marginal tax rates and tax-favoured pension savings of the self-employed: Evidence from Sweden

Selin, Håkan - 2010

In recent years, the study of how individuals respond to policies that aim at promoting pension savings has emerged as a vital area of economic research. This paper adds to this literature by estimating the tax price elasticity of contributions to tax-favoured pension savings accounts on a...

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Great expectations: The determinants of female university enrolment in Europe

Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara - 2011

We empirically investigate the determinants of the female decision of investing in post-secondary education, focusing on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two-period model to analyze the female decision of investing in...

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Does Self-Employment Pay? The Role of Unemployment and Earnings Risk

Garcia-Cabo, Joaquin; Madera, Rocio - 2024

This paper documents the role of unemployment and earnings risk in reconciling evidence in payoff differentials between … earnings and document lower and less dispersed earnings in self-employment. We consider alternative hypotheses and highlight … the role of lower unemployment risk in self-employment. We decompose earnings risk dynamics by estimating a life …

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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant...

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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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