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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228573
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010
significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011536
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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/10012291245
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Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022
Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329545
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Learning from the Omagongo Cultural Festival about entrepreneurship and self-employment in Namibia
April, Wilfred Isak; Itenge, Daniel Ileni; Namalenga, David - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small … 46 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455102
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Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa : patterns and determinants
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a … identified as a priority for African countries, rural entrepreneurship continues to fulfill mainly a risk-diversifying role. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252632
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Entrepreneurship, self-employment and business data : an introduction to several large, nationally-representative datasets
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009
, employment, payroll, profits and industry) from these datasets is contained in Fairlie and Robb (2008). -- Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824288
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“Entrepreneurs out of necessity” : a snapshot
Poschke, Markus - 2010
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across … market. This evidence is a challenge for existing theories of heterogeneous firms. -- Entrepreneurship ; firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959157
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Does crime deter South Africans from self-employment?
Grabrucker, Katharina; Grimm, Michael - 2016
An often-heard argument is that South Africa's very high crime rate is the main reason for the country's small share of business ownership. Combining a fixed-effects model with an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the effect of crime on self-employment and business performance using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531955
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Transitioning from solo self-employed to microbusiness employer : local economic environment or owner characteristics?
Henley, Andrew - 2019
relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986025