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Why are black-owned businesses less successful than white-owned businesses? : The role of families, inheritances, and business human capital
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...
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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
Mel, Suresh de; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2009
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003801015
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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 ; self-employment ; race …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727736
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Public-private entanglement : entrepreneurship in a hybrid political order, the case of Lebanon
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013
imposes a 'tax' on entrepreneurship by channelling entrepreneurial talent into lobbying and bribery; by reinforcing male and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224596
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Trends in the intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans
Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle; Gwatidzo, Tendai - 2014
This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans - changes in correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in intergenerational transmission of education over the last...
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Foreign direct investment, black economic empowerment and labour productivity in South Africa
Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2011
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
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Inputs, gender roles or sharing norms? : assessing the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe J.; Vaillant, Julia - 2014
We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....
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The long run gender origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from Australia's convict history
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Chang, Simon; Smyth, Russell; … - 2024
This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men … backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for … entrepreneurship among men will be higher in neighbourhoods which had historically high sex ratios. We propose that high sex ratios …
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The impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...
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Black entrepreneurs, job creation, and financial constraints
Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, Kyung Min; Brown, J. David; Earle, … - 2021
Black-owned businesses tend to operate with less finance and employ fewer workers than those owned by Whites. Motivated by a simple conceptual framework, we document these facts and show they are causally connected using large firm-level surveys linked to universal employer data from the Census...
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