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Ethnic enclaves, self-employment and the economic performance of refugees
Andersson, Henrik - 2018
In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013514
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The determinants of self-employment growth : insights from county-level data, 2000 - 2009
Goetz, Stephan J.; Rupasingha, Anil - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 28 (2014) 1, pp. 42-60
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010367968
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Foreign-born status, gender, and Hispanic business ownership across U.S. Metropolitan labor markets : a multilevel approach
Wang, Qingfang - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 29 (2015) 4, pp. 328-340
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011562555
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Differences between Latino-owned businesses and White-, Black-, or Asian-owned businesses : evidence from census microdata
Carpenter, Craig Wesley; Loveridge, Scott - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 32 (2018) 3, pp. 225-241
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308022
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State health insurance regulation and self-employment rates after the Great Recession : the role of guaranteed issue mandates
Chattopadhyay, Jacqueline - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 32 (2018) 1, pp. 78-92
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287763
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Behind the GATE experiment: Evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training
Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406340
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The dynamics of combining self-employment and employment
Delmar, Frédéric; Folta, Timothy; Wennberg, Karl - 2008
This study examines the extent to which wage-earning workers are simultaneously self-employed, a phenomenon not thoroughly investigated in earlier studies. We use matched employee-employer databases to present a detailed investigation of self-employment patterns within the post industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273932
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Property Values and the Likelihood of Self-Employment
Hansson, Åsa; Kopsch, Fredrik - 2020
It is well known that capital constraints can hinder individuals to set up a business. Many business owners rely on own capital or capital from friends, fools and family in order to acquire required capital. In this paper, we study the role property plays for starting a business or becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208889
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Taxes and the choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden
Edmark, Karin; Gordon, Roger - 2013
This paper estimates the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice in Sweden to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship, using individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464483
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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …
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