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Consumption risk sharing over the business cycle : the role of small firms' access to credit markets

Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna - 2009

Consumption risk sharing among U.S. federal states increases in booms and decreases in recessions. We find that small firms' access to credit markets plays an important role in explaining this stylized fact: business cycle fluctuations in aggregate risk sharing are more pronounced in states in...

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Why are small firms different? : managers views

Agell, Jonas - 2003

Do incentives in small organizations differ from those in large ones? This paper uses a representative survey of compensation managers to shed light on the issues. I find that (i) small establishments rely less on pecuniary incentives, and have a significantly more hostile attitude towards...

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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 patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (iLBD), Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through...

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Racial disparities in access to small business credit : evidence from the paycheck protection program

Howell, Sabrina T.; Kuchler, Theresa; Snitkof, David; … - 2021

We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...

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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...

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Income mobility of owners of small businesses when boundaries between occupations are vague

Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2009

Ownership of small businesses can facilitate upward mobility through the income hierarchy and help individuals maintain a place at the higher end of the income distribution hierarchy. This paper compares the positional stability of owners of small businesses with that of wage earners, arguing...

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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework

Torre, Augusto de la; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; … - 2009

foster SME lending and attention has focused on improving the institutional environment, such that the financial system is … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … and retail sectors. They perceive the SME market as highly profitable, large, and with good prospects. Moreover, banks are …

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Endogenous monopsony and the perverse effect of the minimum wage in small firms

Danziger, Leif - 2009

The minimum wage rate has been introduced in many countries as a means of alleviating the poverty of the working poor. This paper shows, however, that an imperfectly enforced minimum wage rate causes small firms to face an upward-sloping labor supply schedule. Since this turns these firms into...

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The impact of dividend taxation on dividends and investment : new evidence based on a natural experiment

Kari, Seppo; Karikallio, Hanna; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2009

There is a lack of clear evidence of the ways in which dividend taxation affects dividend distributions and investment since the evidence is based mainly on the behaviour of large listed companies. This paper utilises a large register-based panel data set, where the vast majority of firms are...

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Shifts in organizational form under a dual income tax system

Thoresen, Thor Olav (contributor); … - 2008

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