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Low-income individuals in developing countries are often inadequately prepared for employment because they lack key …, or prior employment. We furthermore find that participants enjoy improved employability and estimated wage outcomes …
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behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment size and survival probabilities? Estimates from the CBO indicate …
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An important finding in the rapidly growing literature on self-employment is that the probability of self-employment is … self-employment are solely due to the acquisition of general and specific business capital and that instead similarities … intergenerational links in self-employment is limited at best. …
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The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period because of the exceptionally tight labor market. A new measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching...
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extremely well in the Great Recession. -- entrepreneurship ; great recession ; unemployment ; self-employment …
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, which raises concerns that the bundling of health insurance and employment may create an inefficient level of business …
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Employer-provided health insurance may restrict job mobility, resulting in "job lock." Previous research on job lock finds mixed results using several methodologies. We take a new approach to examine job-lock by exploiting the discontinuity created at age 65 through the qualification for...
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...
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-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 business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with … the black-white gap falling three percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on...
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