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We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze …
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options. Utilizing data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of …
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-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes …
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Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the US context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...
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fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
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Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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Since the September 11 attacks (9/11), the U.S. has seen a tightening of immigration policies. Previous studies find that stricter immigration enforcement has the unintended effect of pushing undocumented immigrants into self-employment. This paper builds on the literature to better understand...
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This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions … countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never …
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