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2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school …
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Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...
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Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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-owned businesses have lower survival rates, profits, employment and sales. We find that female-owned businesses are less successful …
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determinants of entry into self-employment. They demonstrate that the oft-cited positive relationship between entry rates and … demonstrate that bifurcating the sample into workers who enter self-employment after job loss and those who do not reveals … significantly positive determinant of entry into self-employment. Our estimates indicate that a 10 percent annual increase in …
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, employment, payroll, profits and industry) from these datasets is contained in Fairlie and Robb (2008). -- Entrepreneurship … ; self-employment ; business owners ; small businesses ; data …
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"Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in...
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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among … populations residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self employment rates in the two countries. Within … in the United States account for roughly half of the Mexican immigrant/U.S. total difference in self-employment rates for …
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