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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved so Little Success in the United States?

Bates, Timothy - 2010

Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...

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Coming to America : Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009

This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...

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Determinants of Business Success : An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia - 2007

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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Education and Self-Employment : South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market

Dutta, Nabamita - 2014

% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …

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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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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Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and Their Descendants

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...

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Too Cold to Venture There? January Temperature and Immigrant Self-Employment Across the United States

Lee, Jun; Winters, John V. - 2022

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …, we document that immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas of the USA. Our main measure is the … other areas of the USA. This relationship holds for numerous sub-samples of immigrants and is not driven by any particular …

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Income Taxation of U.S. Households : Basic Facts

Guner, Nezih - 2011

We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...

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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …

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Fiscal Policy and Households' Inflation Expectations : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2021

primary surpluses should lead households to anticipate this higher inflation. Are household inflation expectations sensitive …

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