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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314868
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The Effects of Covid-19 on U.S. Small Businesses: Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314865
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315288
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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2021
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315291
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291884
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Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388221
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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
Rauch, James E. - 2013
spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328762
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328790
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328837
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The Emergence of the Global Fintech Market: Economic and Technological Determinants
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available and people have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555573