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

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

industries heavily affected by set-asides and mostly benefited the better educated. -- entrepreneurship ; affirmative action …

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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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Entrepreneurship, economic risks, and risk insurance in the welfare state : results with OECD data 1978-93

Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and … labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public … production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD …

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants’ ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment...

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Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests : evidence from the GRE test

Schlosser, Analia; Neeman, Zvika; Attali, Yigal - 2019

We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger...

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Return, circular, and onward migration decisions in a knowledge society

Constant, Amelie - 2019

This chapter provides a state-of-the-art literature review about research that aims to explain the return, repeat, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it...

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Do immigrants affect crime? : evidence from panel data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita; Übelmesser, 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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Global talent flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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