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Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP

Norlander, Peter; Sorensen, Todd A. - 2016

We address the impact of declining migration on the measurement of labor market health. We first document an historically significant decline in the growth rate of the U.S. foreign born population since 2000. A decomposition shows that nearly two-thirds of the decline can be attributed to...

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Self-Employment and Migration

Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David - 2019

There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …

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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 1999

-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …

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Who are the microenterprise owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...

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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

Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...

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Entrepreneurship in the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic Monthly files of the...

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Entrepreneurship: origins and returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R.; Røed, Knut; … - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

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Why are the returns to education higher for entrepreneurs than for employees?

van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, C. Mirjam; van … - 2007

We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and taking account of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent...

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