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limited research on the topic of "entrepreneurship lock" by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys … business ownership in the month individuals turn 65. Our estimates provide some evidence that "entrepreneurship lock" exists …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
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housing equity increases the mean probability of entrepreneurship by roughly 20 percent and that the effect is not …
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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 Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
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